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Pearl-spotted owlets predominantly eat arthropods — especially grasshoppers, crickets, and solifuges — but are capable of hunting small vertebrates such as rodents, bats, lizards, snakes and small birds. Although the pearl-spotted owlet is not a threat to larger vertebrates, the capture and killing of pearl-spotted owlets by Red colobus in ...
Pearl-spotted owlet. Order: Strigiformes Family: Strigidae. The typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Eurasian scops-owl, Otus scops; African scops-owl, Otus senegalensis
The spotted owlet is a small and stocky bird, barely 21 cm (8.3 in) in size. The upperparts are grey-brown, heavily spotted with white. The underparts are white, streaked with brown. The facial disc is pale and the iris is yellow. There is a white neckband and supercilium. Sexes are similar. The flight is deeply undulating.
Guatemalan pygmy owl (left) and red-chested owlet (right); illustration by Keulemans, 1875 Ferruginous pygmy owl. Pygmy owls are members of the genus Glaucidium. They belong to the typical owl family, Strigidae. The genus consists of 29 species distributed worldwide. These are mostly small owls, and some of the species are called "owlets".
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ethiopia. ... Pearl-spotted owlet, Glaucidium ... Birding Ethiopia List of bird pictures including songs of endemic ...
Pearl-spotted owlet: Glaucidium perlatum (Vieillot, 1817) 80 Red-chested owlet: Glaucidium tephronotum Sharpe, 1875: 81 Sjöstedt's barred owlet: Glaucidium sjostedti Reichenow, 1893: 82 Asian barred owlet: Glaucidium cuculoides (Vigors, 1830) 83 Javan owlet: Glaucidium castanopterum (Horsfield, 1821) 84 Jungle owlet: Glaucidium radiatum ...
Pearl-spotted owlet. Order: Strigiformes Family: Strigidae. The typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Eurasian scops-owl, Otus scops; African scops-owl, Otus senegalensis
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Tanzania. ... Pearl-spotted owlet, Glaucidium perlatum; African barred owlet, Glaucidium capense;