Pernambuco Pygmy-Owl

Glaucidium mooreorum

Critically Endangered

The Pernambuco Pygmy-Owl is an owl of northeastern Brazil's Pernambuco forest region. It hunts mostly at dusk or night, using silent flight, strong talons, and sharp hearing to catch mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, or fish, and usually nests in cavities, cliffs, old nests, or sheltered hollows.

Family

Strigidae

Group

Owls

Range

Pernambuco Pygmy-Owl Range — Resident or seasonal range in northeastern Brazil's Pernambuco forest region

Population

≈ Unknown

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