Species profile
Chestnut-backed Owlet
Glaucidium castanotum
Quick answer
Forests of wet zone of Sri Lanka
- Scientific name
- Glaucidium castanotum
- Family
- Strigidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Genus
- Glaucidium
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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