The Asian barred owlet is a little larger than the spotted owlet I featured yesterday. It gets up to 9.8 inches in height and there are eight subspecies. The subspecies I saw, Glaucidium cuculoides austerum is found in northeast India, Bhutan and northwest Myanmar. Asian barred owlets are either dark brown or olive/brown with a white throat patch and densely barred. The breast and belly is white with dark brown bars (how can you tell its not brown with white bars) and the tail and wings are dark brown with whitish bars. It is primarily diurnal and perches on bare branches during the day to hunt, which is how we saw it.
They are found in northeast India, along the foothills of the Himalayas into Pakistan, in southeast China, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal and Bangladesh.
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| Range of the Asian barred owlet from Wikipedia. |
They remind me a bit of your burrowing owls. Cute.
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