long-whiskered owlet
xenoglaux loweryi latin

Currently, the long-whiskered owlet's total population is estimated to number between just 250 and 999 individuals.

So we waited until dusk and played the recording of the Long-whiskered Owlet.

The Long-whiskered Owlet is mainly brown with a whitish belly and eyebrow.

Sound recordings of the voice of the Long-whiskered Owlet.

The long-whiskered owlet is amongst the smallest owl species in the world and is thought to feed primarily on insects.

In January 2010, scientists found a new population of five Long-whiskered Owlets which are very rare in the wild.

Response: This is an adult long-whiskered owlet, Xenoglaux loweryi, one of the smallest true owls (Strigidae).

The long-whiskered owlet appears to inhabit the understory and mid-story of very wet elfin rainforest and tall cloud forest in the Andes mountains.

Neotropical Primate Conservation (2010): Long-Whiskered Owlet in La Esperanza.

It is the world's lightest owl, although the Long-whiskered Owlet and the Tamaulipas Pygmy Owl are of a similarly diminutive length.

Around the same diminutive length, although slightly heavier, are the lesser known Long-whiskered Owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi) and Tamaulipas Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium sanchezi).

In addition to later records from the same general area, the Long-whiskered Owlet has been observed several times at La Esperanza in the Amazonas Department, where first discovered in January 2010.

Long-whiskered owlet, Xenoglaux loweryi, O'Neill & Graves, GR, 1977, photographed at Abra Patricia Reserve, San Martín Region, Peru (South America).

The Long-whiskered Owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi) is a tiny owl that is endemic to a small area in the Andean mountains in Amazonas and San Martín in northern Peru.

I was birding in Peru with a friend of mine, Frank Lambert, a few years ago, and we heard that someone had caught a Long-whiskered Owlet in a mist-net near a new lodge that had just opened on a big forest reserve at Abra Patricia in northern Peru.