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Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl

Glaucidium nubicola

The cloud-forest pygmy owl (Glaucidium nubicola) is a short, muscular, small-sized species of owl found throughout the Andes of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador, being confined to cloud forests between 900–2000 m a.s.l. Below this altitudinal range the Central American pygmy owl (Glaucidium griseiceps) occurs; above it, the Andean pygmy owl (Glaucidium jardinii) occurs.Its epithet nubicola is Latin for “cloud-inhabiting”, because this species is restricted to very humid cloud forests.

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