Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus) - HBW 5, p. 164
French: Petit-duc nain
German: Ponderosaeule
Spanish: Autillo Flamulado
Other common names: Flammulated Screech-owl
Taxonomy: Scops (Megascops) flammeola Kaup, 1853, Mexico.
Only New World species belonging to the Old World Otus assemblage referred to as subgenus Otus; differs from other New World Otus (subgenus Megascops) in lacking typical trilled song. Probably forms superspecies with O. brucei, O. senegalensis, O. scops and O. sunia. Longer-winged population in N part of range sometimes separated as idahoensis and darker birds from Guatemalan highlands described as rarus, but individual plumage variation appears to be continuous and biometric differences possibly clinal; also, other races d.. View all taxonomy...
Only New World species belonging to the Old World Otus assemblage referred to as subgenus Otus; differs from other New World Otus (subgenus Megascops) in lacking typical trilled song. Probably forms superspecies with O. brucei, O. senegalensis, O. scops and O. sunia. Longer-winged population in N part of range sometimes separated as idahoensis and darker birds from Guatemalan highlands described as rarus, but individual plumage variation appears to be continuous and biometric differences possibly clinal; also, other races described from S Mexico and Guatemala (meridionalis), Colorado (frontalis) and C British Columbia to NE California (borealis); type locality of species, however, apparently unknown, making objective use of subspecific names problematic. Treated as monotypic.
Distribution: Breeds from SW Canada (SC British Columbia) S to NW & SW USA and NE, W & C Mexico (and E in highlands to S Puebla, and NE Oaxaca). Winters to C & S Mexico and Guatemala, possibly El Salvador.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Some views of a bird that was mist netted, banded and released. Locality San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Paul Clarke 11 July 2009 3 years ago 54 sec 4.3
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adult female
Locality Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
dickcannings 26 June 2008 2 years ago 4.2 -
A bird of the red phase roosting on a pine tree.
Locality Oregon, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
GirlieGirl 9 May 2009 4 years ago 3.8
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