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Baja pygmy owl

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It is 15 to 16.5 cm or 17 cm (6 to 7 inches) long and weighs 50 to 65 g (1.8–2.3 oz). Its plumage is sandy gray-brown, with females typically more reddish than males. Unlike many related owls, it does not seem to have gray and red
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lasting about two seconds, with five to fifteen seconds between double hoots. This species occasionally begins a bout of hooting with up to five hoots in series. It may also utter "a rapid, slightly quavering
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paid to collect birds in the 1880s. The first specimen of the Baja pygmy owl was collected on one of Frazar's expeditions.
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woods from 1500 to 2100 m (5000–7000 ft.) in altitude. In winter it can descend to 500 m (1,640 ft.).
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The American Ornithological Society considers the Baja pygmy owl a subspecies of the northern pygmy owl,
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The commonly heard call is distinctly different from that of other pygmy owls in the region: a
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commemorates Francis Hoskins, an assistant to Marston Abbott Frazar, an
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A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America
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in the Cape District, where it is fairly common, to the
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Cape pygmy owl

Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
CITES
CITES
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Strigiformes
Strigidae
Glaucidium
Binomial name
Brewster

Synonyms
northern pygmy owl
Mexican
Baja California Sur
International Ornithologists' Union
American Ornithological Society
northern pygmy owl
least pygmy owl
Handbook of the Birds of the World
ornithologist
George B. Sennett

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