Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Chestnut Owlet (Glaucidium castaneum) - HBW 5, p. 223
French: Chevêchette châtaine
German: Kastanienkauz
Spanish: Mochuelo Castaño
Other common names: Chestnut Barred Owlet; Lake District/Ituri Owlet (castaneum)
Taxonomy: Glaucidium castaneum Neumann, 1893, Andundi, Zaire.
Has been suggested as forming superspecies with G. capense and G. albertinum. Has been treated as conspecific with G. capense; or sometimes disjunct race etchecopari alone placed with latter or even treated as separate species on grounds of distribution and ecology. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- etchecopari Érard & Roux, 1983 - patchily in Liberia and Ivory Coast.
- castaneum Neumann, 1893 - NE Zaire (Semliki Valley) and SW Uganda (Bwamba Forest).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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front view on branch, being mobbed by lots of birds, with the Bearded Barbet being bravest Locality Sagu Bat Cave, Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Greater Accra Region, Ghana (ssp etchecopari)
Martin Kennewell 18 December 2010 1 year ago 39 sec 3.6
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