Unspotted Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius ridgwayi)
About the Unspotted Saw-whet Owl
The unspotted saw-whet owl (Aegolius ridgwayi) is a small "typical owl" in subfamily Surniinae. It is native to mountainous areas of Central America. The unspotted saw-whet owl's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) treats it as monotypic. The Clements taxonomy and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) assign it three subspecies, the nominate A. r. ridgwayi, A. r. tacanensis, and A. r. rostratus. HBW's assignment is provisional. A. r. tacanensis and A. r. rostratus were each described from a single specimen. The unspotted saw-whet owl and the northern saw-whet owl (A. acadicus) form a superspecies and some authors have proposed that they are a single species.
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Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Boreal OwlAegolius funereusrecording
- Northern Saw-whet OwlAegolius acadicusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.