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Tamaulipas pygmy owl

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facial disc flecked with white and short white eyebrows. The upper parts are olive-brown, with a greyer crown and fine white speckling at the front and sides of the crown. The main wing and tail feathers are barred in white. The underparts are whitish with some reddish-brown streaking and mottling. The legs are feathered, the bill is yellowish-brown and the eyes are yellow. The female is similar but has an overall more reddish-brown appearance.
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The adult Tamaulipas pygmy owl has a length of between 13 and 16 cm (5.1 and 6.3 in) with a relatively long tail of between 5.1 and 5.7 cm (2.0 and 2.2 in). Their average weight is 53 g (1.9 oz), the male generally being lighter than the female. The male has a brownish
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is moist evergreen forest, montane forest and cloud forest at altitudes between about 900 and 2,100 m (3,000 and 6,900 ft).
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to Mexico where it is only found in the mountains of northeastern Mexico, in the northern part of the state of
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This owl is partly diurnal and feeds on insects and small vertebrates such as
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Claus König; Friedhelm Weick & Jan-Hendrik Becking (1999).
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rated the conservation status of the Tamaulipas pygmy owl as "
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König, Claus; Weick, Friedhelm; Becking, Jan-Hendrik (2010).
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Tamaulipas pygmy-owl

Conservation status
Near Threatened
IUCN 3.1
CITES
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Strigiformes
Strigidae
Glaucidium
Binomial name
Lowery

owl
Strigidae
endemic
Mexico
long-whiskered owlet
elf owl
habitat
subtropical
tropical
montane forests
endemic

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