[order] STRIGIFORMES | [family] Strigidae | [latin] Glaucidium brodiei | [authority] Burton, 1836 | [UK] Collared Owlet | [FR] Chevechette a collier | [DE] Wachtelkauz | [ES] Mochuelo Acollarado | [NL] Gekraagde Dwerguil
Monotypic species
Genus
Members of the genus Glaucidium are very small and tiny owls. They have rounded heads without ear-tufts. Their eyes are yellow. In many species the talons are, in relation to their size, very powerful. The facial disc is not very distinct. Some species have a large dark patch with a pale border on each side of the nape of the neck, looking like false eyes. Many are partly diurnal and sing from exposed perches. These are mostly very tenacious in the hunt, and show little fear, even of approaching humans. Glaucidium is a worldwide genus, containing some 30 species. Most of the Asian species, and some of the African species show physical and behavioural differences that suggest they might be better placed in Athene, and DNA evidence suggests that there is only a distant relationship between the Old World Pygmy Owls and those of the New World.
The Collared Owlet is a tiny (16 cm) owl with a relatively large, rounded head and bright yellow eyes. The body may be rufous brown or grayish overall, and is extensively barred with dark brown on the back, wings, tail and sides of the upper breast. The lower breast and belly are white with distinct dark brown spots along the sides. The head is spotted with creamy buff, and there is a brown bar across the white throat. A buffy collar and two large orange and black eyespots are present on the back of the neck.
Listen to the sound of Collared Owlet
[audio:http://www.planetofbirds.com/MASTER/STRIGIFORMES/Strigidae/sounds/Collared Owlet.mp3]
Copyright remark: Most sounds derived from xeno-canto
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Oriental Region : widespread
Open temperate forest, forest edges, woodland, scrub. Montane forest 800-3200 meter up.
The Collared Owlet nests in a tree cavity, in which the female usually lays four white eggs, and both adults feed the nestlings
The Collared Owlet may hunt at all hours of the day, but is most active at dusk and at night, watching and listening from a high perch for its prey of small birds, rodents, lizards and large insects. It flies with very rapid wingbeats and is capable of taking prey much larger than itself, such as barbets or large rodents.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj5_IiP0Ezw
copyright: Pieter de Groot Boersma
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
The Collared Owlet is a tiny (16 cm) owl with a relatively large, rounded head and bright yellow eyes. The body may be rufous brown or grayish overall, and is extensively barred with dark brown on the back, wings, tail and sides of the upper breast. The lower breast and belly are white with distinct dark brown spots along the sides. The head is spotted with creamy buff, and there is a brown bar across the white throat. A buffy collar and two large orange and black ?eyespots? are present on the back of the neck.
Resident
