Order: Strigiformes | Family: Strigidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Brazil
Status: The Amazonian Pygmy Owl is fairly common in Amazonia where it ranges to elevation of up to 1000 m along the foothill of the eastern Andes. It also occurs in Br and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Lechucita Amazónica.
Sub-species: Amazonian Pygmy-Owl (Glaucidium hardyi), Vielliard, 1989.
Meaning of Name: Glaucidium: Gr. glaukidion= diminutive of Glaux= little owl, little owl. hardyi: in honor of American ornithologist John William Hardy (1930) founder of the Florida Museum of Natural History and Bioacoustic Laboratory and Archive.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.