Profile
In flight
Owls
Jungle Owlet
Glaucidium radiatum
- uncommon
- 48 km/h
- Least Concern
A small daylight owlet that calls from a sunlit branch as freely as a songbird and silences every small bird in earshot. Tiny, barred, and entirely fearless.
- Population
- widespread and locally common, often heard at dawn and dusk; reliable population figures not well established
- Habitat
- moist and dry deciduous forest, teak and sal woodland, bamboo, forest edge, and well-wooded foothills across the Indian subcontinent
- Diet
- large insects (beetles, grasshoppers, mantises, moths), small lizards, small birds, occasional small rodents
- Size
- 0.2 m
- Wingspan
- 0.4 m
