Tengmalm's Owl

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Friday July 4th, 2008

Tengmalm’s Owl
Aegolius funereus

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As of February 2005.
Description	Small greyish (grayish) brown owl, with brown upperparts spotted with white, white under-parts broadly streaked with brown. Large, prominent, whitish facial disk with a dark border and white, raised eyebrows. Eyes yellow.
Size	20-25cm, 90-195g
Range	Range consistent with the Northern Holartic coniferous belt, with other populations in C & E Europe, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Tien Shan and Himalayas.
Habitat	Mainly old growth coniferous forest and mountainous regions.
Food	Primarily rodents and other small mammals and occasionally birds.
Breeding	Breeds from March-July, nesting mainly in large woodpecker holes. 3-6 eggs (much more in good prey years) are incubated for 29 days. The young fledge by about 5 weeks and are independent within another 6 weeks.
Call	Series of 6-8, trill, staccato “poops” increasing in volume.
Status	Not globally threatened, but generally uncommon or rare.
Comments	This bird is named after the Swedish naturalist Peter Gustaf Tengmalm.
Races	The race sibericus is sometimes included in pallens.
A.f.funereus	Locally in Europe - Scandinavia, Pyrenees, Alps east to Urals
A.f.magnus	NE Siberia from Kolyma to Kamchatka
A.f.pallens	From Caspian across S Siberia to N Mongolia
A.f.sibiricus	C Siberia to Sakhalin and NE China
A.f.beickianus	N Kansu in C China
A.f.caucasicus	Caucasus and Crimea
A.f.richardsoni	N North America

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