Red-chested Owlet

Glaucidium tephronotum - Chevêchette à pieds jaunes

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Strigiformes

  • Family
    :

    Strigidés

  • Genus
    :

    Glaucidium

  • Species
    :

    tephronotum

Descriptor

Sharpe, 1875

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 18 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 75 à 103 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Chevêchette à pieds jaunes
adult
Chevêchette à pieds jaunes
adult

Red-chested Owlet (Glaucidium tephronotum) is a species of bird in the Strigidae family.

Subspecific information 3 subspecies

  • Glaucidium tephronotum tephronotum (Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana)
  • Glaucidium tephronotum pycrafti (Cameroon)
  • Glaucidium tephronotum medje (Gabon and DRCongo to Rwanda and Burundi; sw, e Uganda and w Kenya)

Foreign names

  • Chevêchette à pieds jaunes,
  • Mochuelo pechirrojo,
  • mochinho-de-peito-vermelho,
  • Rotbrust-Zwergkauz,
  • vörösmellű törpekuvik,
  • Roodborstdwerguil,
  • Civettina pettorosso,
  • rödbröstad sparvuggla,
  • Gråhodeugle,
  • kuvičok hrdzavoprsý,
  • kulíšek rudoprsý,
  • Rødbrystet Spurveugle,
  • tropiikkivarpuspöllö,
  • mussolet de pit roig,
  • sóweczka rdzawopierśna,
  • Красногрудый воробьиный сыч,
  • ムネアカスズメフクロウ,
  • 红胸鸺鹠,
  • 紅胸鵂鶹,

Voice song and cries

Habitat

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Moist, Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 15-10-2015
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