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Glaucidium brodiei (Collared Owlet)

Synonyms: Noctua brodiei; Taenioptynx brodiei; Taenioptynx brodiei brodiei

Wikipedia Abstract

The collared owlet (Glaucidium brodiei) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is the smallest owl in Asia, at 15 cm (5.9 in) and 60 g (2.1 oz).
View Wikipedia Record: Glaucidium brodiei

Infraspecies

Glaucidium brodiei borneense
Glaucidium brodiei brodiei
Glaucidium brodiei pardalotum
Glaucidium brodiei sylvaticum

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.45943
EDGE Score: 2.13528
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  59 grams
Female Weight [1]  63 grams
Male Weight [1]  55 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  14.5 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  30 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  70 %
Clutch Size [4]  4
Incubation [3]  25 days
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [5]  54
Snout to Vent Length [1]  6 inches (15 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 5Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0