Species
- Eurasian Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium passerinum
- Collared Owlet, Glaucidium brodiei
- Pearl-spotted Owlet, Glaucidium perlatum
- Northern Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium (gnoma) californicum
- Mountain Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium gnoma gnoma
- Guatemalan Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium (gnoma) cobanense
- Cape Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium (gnoma) hoskinsii
- Costa Rican Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium costaricanum
- Cloud-forest Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium nubicola
- Andean Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium jardinii
- Yungas Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium bolivianum
- Colima Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium palmarum
- Tamaulipas Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium sanchezi
- Central American Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium griseiceps
- Subtropical Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium parkeri
- Amazonian Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium hardyi
- Pernambuco Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium mooreorum
- East Brazilian Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium minutissimum
- Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium brasilianum
- Ridgway's Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium (brasilianum) ridgwayi (species or subspecies)
- Tucuman Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium (brasilianum) tucumanum (species or subspecies)
- Pacific Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium peruanum
- Austral Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium nanum
- Cuban Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium siju
- Red-chested Owlet, Glaucidium tephronotum
- Sjostedt's Barred Owlet, Glaucidium sjostedti
- Asian Barred Owlet, Glaucidium cuculoides
- Javan Owlet, Glaucidium castanopterum
- Jungle Owlet, Glaucidium radiatum
- Chestnut-backed Owlet, Glaucidium castanonotum
- African Barred Owlet, Glaucidium capense
- Ngami Owlet, Glaucidium (capense) ngamiense
- Scheffler's Owlet, Glaucidium (capense) scheffleri
- Albertine Owlet, Glaucidium albertinum
- Chestnut Owlet, Glaucidium castaneum
The supposed prehistoric species "Glaucidium" dickinsoni is now recognized as a burrowing owl, probably a paleosubspecies providentiae. Bones of an indeterminate Glaucidium have been recovered from Late Pliocene deposits in Poland (Mlíkovský 2002).
Read more about this topic: Pygmy Owl
Famous quotes containing the word species:
“Our species successfully raised children for tens of thousands of years before the first person wrote down the word “psychology.” The fundamental skills needed to be a parent are within us. All we’re really doing is fine-tuning a process that’s already remarkably successful.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.... Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another—cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the “very best society” that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of “dressing” to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)