Chestnut-backed Owlet
Glaucidium castanotum(Blyth, E, 1851)
English (US) Chestnut-backed Owlet
The Chestnut-backed Owlet (Glaucidium castanotum) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Strigidae (Owls) in the order Strigiformes.
Range: forest of wet zone of Sri LankaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Glaucidium castanotum
- Family
- Strigidae (Owls)
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Chestnut-backed Owlet
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1851)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ath[ene] castanotus
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1851)
- Type locality
- Ceylon.
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 19, no.7 p.509
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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