Wildlife & Flora
Asian Barred Owlet
Asian Barred Owlet (Glaucidium cuculoides) is a wildlife & flora sighting recorded around Besisahar, Simalchaur, Khudi.
- Scientific name
- Glaucidium cuculoides
- Local name
- Thulo Dundul
- Category
- Wildlife & Flora
Asian barred owlet is a diurnal owl often found perched on branches or dead tree stumps. Its face is streaked with peculiar white eyebrows above lemon yellow eyes. The upper side of head, neck and wings are brown while the outside of breast is painted dark brown. The tail has around six white and widely spaced bars. Beetles, grasshoppers, flies, lizards, mice and small birds are all feast and fair game in the eyes of this little owl.
