This tiny wee owl (only 16cm tall and weighing 57g) is Africa's smallest and rarest owl with its core population based in the Cynometra-Manikara forest zone within the Arabuko-Sokoke forest. There are small, barely viable populations in Dakatcha and in Tanzania's Eastern Usambara's. The species is Red Data listed as "Endangered" with a decreasing population currently estimated to be between 2,500 and 9,900 individuals. A nest has never been found and much of this rare owl's biology remains to be discovered.
These charming wee owls come in three flavours (colour morphs): Grey, Rufous ("Red") and Orange.
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Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
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Antarctica
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Atlantic Ocean
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Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
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Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
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Indian Ocean
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Latin America (Middle and South America)
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Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
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North America (includes the Caribbean)
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Northern oceans
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Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
