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Common Name: Brazilian Pygmy Owl

Scientific Name: Glaucidium minutissimum

 

Kingdom: Animalia

phylum: Chordata

class: Aves

Order: Strigiformes

Family: Strigidae

Genus: Glaucidium

Species: G. minutissimum

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You may be thinking now either “Why is this stupid bird even here?” or “What a fascinating bird.” Well for those are thinking the first one  I am here to prove you wrong. so sit down and listen.

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First things first they are small and they live in Brazil if you hadn’t noticed.  Time for the real knowledge, even though they are small they can hide better than most animals

and can catch insects well as well.  although if they are found they can be eaten with one gulp.  They have very good camouflage.

 

They live in the rain forest where most insects are out and about.  Their population is not too high and not too low.  As I said before they eat insects sometimes rodents. Snakes and bigger birds hunt them.

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Author:Aaron M  

Published: 2/2014

 

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=211896

 

 

 

 

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