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Photo by Luiz
Dourado, São Paulo state, Brazil, May 2013

Aegolius harrisii

[edit] Identification

23 cm

• Black upperparts
• White-flecked wings
• Buff underparts
• Brown tail, 2 spotted white bars
• Black-edged buff facial disc
• Yellow iris

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• A. h. harrisii:

• Patchily distributed in Colombia to Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela

• A. h. iheringi:

• Eastern Bolivia to Paraguay, eastern Brazil, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina

• A. h. dabbenei:

• Western Bolivia and north-western Argentina (Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy)

[edit] Habitat

Mountain forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

It nests in a tree hole.

[edit] Diet

The diet includes rodents, small mammals, insects and birds.

[edit] References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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