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[[Image:Least_Pygmy_Owl.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by arthurgrosset <br/>Photographed: Intervales, Sao Paulo, [[Brazil]]. ]]
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[[Image:Least_Pygmy_Owl.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by arthurgrosset <br/>Photographed: [[Intervales State Park]], Sao Paulo, [[Brazil]]. ]]
==Identification==
==Identification==
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Yellow eyes, grey-brown facial disc, rufous inner rings, rufous brown upperparts, barred flight feathers, cinnamon brown tail, white throat, off white underparts with rufous streaks, yellow bill and toes.
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Yellow eyes, grey-brown facial disc, rufous inner rings, rufous brown upperparts, barred flight feathers, cinnamon brown tail, white throat, off white underparts with rufous streaks, yellow bill and toes.
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====Similar species====
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Apparantly, this species cannot be safely separated from [[Pernambuco Pygmy-Owl]] on plumage characters (even when evaluating specimens from a museum) but only on voice.
==Distribution==
==Distribution==
Northern [[Argentina]], eastern [[Brazil]], and [[Paraguay]].
Northern [[Argentina]], eastern [[Brazil]], and [[Paraguay]].
==Taxonomy==
==Taxonomy==
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This is a monotypic species<sup>[[#References|1]]</sup>.
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This is a monotypic species<sup>[[#References|1]]</sup>. <br />
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It has been claimed that the scientific name of this species has been misapplied and that it really should be called ''Glaucidium sicki''. No world wide checklists have followed suit and Opus is therefore not changing at this time either.
==Habitat==
==Habitat==
Evergreen rain forest and forest edge.
Evergreen rain forest and forest edge.
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==References==
==References==
# Clements, James F. 2007. ''The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World''. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
# Clements, James F. 2007. ''The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World''. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
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# [http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~remsen/SACCprop243.html SACC] discussion on the scientific name of this species
Yellow eyes, grey-brown facial disc, rufous inner rings, rufous brown upperparts, barred flight feathers, cinnamon brown tail, white throat, off white underparts with rufous streaks, yellow bill and toes.
Apparantly, this species cannot be safely separated from Pernambuco Pygmy-Owl on plumage characters (even when evaluating specimens from a museum) but only on voice.
This is a monotypic species1.
It has been claimed that the scientific name of this species has been misapplied and that it really should be called Glaucidium sicki. No world wide checklists have followed suit and Opus is therefore not changing at this time either.
Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
SACC discussion on the scientific name of this species
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