Northern Pygmy-Owl, Glaucidium gnoma

Northern Pygmy-Owl, Glaucidium gnoma cobanense. Also known as the Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl. Photograph taken within a residential community in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, December 2023. Photograph courtesy of Ron Woheau, Zihuatanejo.

Baja Pygmy-Owl, Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii. One of the seven subspecies of Northern Pygmy-Owls. Endemic to Baja California Sur. Bird rescued from entanglement in barbed wire fence in the greater East Cape area of Baja California Sur, and set free. Rescue, photographs and identifications courtesy of Brad Murakami, Surrey, British Columbia, and Ian Franck, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, January 2024.

Northern Pygmy-Owl, Glaucidium gnoma pinicola. Photograph taken within a residential community in Hereford, Arizona, December 2017. Photograph and identification courtesy of Bob Behrstock, Sierra Vista, Arizona (naturewideimages.com).

 

Family:  Stringidae