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Austral Pygmy-owl

Glaucidium nana

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Strigidae

The austral pygmy owl (Glaucidium nana) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found mainly in central and southern Chile, but also in some parts of southern Argentina. Taxonomy and systematics The austral pygmy owl has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of ferruginous pygmy owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) but DNA studies and other data support its being a species in its own right.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Chile · 12,117Argentina · 2,448