Cloud-forest pygmy owl
| Cloud-forest pygmy owl | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Strigidae |
| Genus: | Glaucidium |
| Species: | G. nubicola |
| Binomial name | |
| Glaucidium nubicola Robbins & Stiles, 1999 | |
| Distribution of cloud-forest pygmy owl Resident | |
The cloud-forest pygmy owl or cloudforest pygmy owl (Glaucidium nubicola) is a short, muscular, small-sized species of owl found throughout the Andes of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador, being confined to cloud forests between 900–2000 m a.s.l. Below this altitudinal range the Central American pygmy owl (Glaucidium griseiceps) occurs; above it, the Andean pygmy owl (Glaucidium jardinii) occurs.
Its epithet nubicola is Latin for "cloud-inhabiting", because this species is restricted to very humid cloud forests.