Avibase: Glaucidium [capense or albertinum] (African Barred or Albertine Owlet)

African Barred or Albertine Owlet

Glaucidium [capense or albertinum] (= Glaucidium capense) (Smith, A 1834)

The African barred owlet is a species of small owl in the family Strigidae found in much of southern, central and eastern Africa. The taxon may be four species rather than a single species. Source: Wikipedia

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Classification

Order:
  Strigiformes
Family:
  Strigidae
Genus:
   Glaucidium
Scientific:
  Glaucidium capense

Original description

Citation:
(Smith, A 1834)

Reference:
S. Afr. Quart. J. vol.2, no.4, pt.1 p.313

Protonym:
Noctua Capensis

Type locality:
South Africa.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54196#page/333/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
6F16D3512C96C74C

Avibase ID:
avibase-6F16D351

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/6F16D351

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 555465

Geographic range:

Glaucidium capense: disjunctly in lowland and foothill woodland, riparian and coastal forest, and edge habitat in open country, from Liberia and Ivory Coast eastward to Benin, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda, and from southern Somalia southward through coastal Kenya, southern and eastern Tanzania and Mafia Island, and Zambia to northern Namibia and northeastern South Africa, and of south-central South Africa
Glaucidium capense capense: southern Mozambique to KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Cape Province
Glaucidium capense castaneum: northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Semliki Valley) and southwestern Uganda (Bwamba Forest); records from southern Cameroon, southwestern Central African Republic, and Congo may refer to this subspecies
Glaucidium capense etchecopari: patchily distributed in Liberia and Ivory Coast
Glaucidium capense ngamiense: eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to central Tanzania (including Mafia Island), southward to Angola, northern Namibia, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
Glaucidium capense scheffleri: far southern coastal Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania
Glaucidium albertinum: poorly known; reported from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Itombwe Mountains and forest west of Lake Edward) and northern Rwanda
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Source: Clements checklist

English:
African Barred or Albertine Owlet
French:
Chevêchette du Cap, ou C. de Prigogine

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): African Barred or Albertine Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): African Barred or Albertine Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): African Barred, Chestnut, Albertine, Ngami or Scheffler's Owlet ( Glaucidium [capense, ngamiense, scheffleri, castaneum or albertinum])
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Chevêchette du Cap ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Clements 1st edition: Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Clements 3rd edition: Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0: African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1: African Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Morony, Bock and Farrand: Barred Owlet ( Glaucidium capense) [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Glaucidium capense [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Glaucidium capense [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Glaucidium capense [version 1]
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Glaucidium capense [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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