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Forest owlet
Species of owl / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The forest owlet (Athene blewitti) is endemic to the forests of central India. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2018, as the population is estimated at less than 1,000 mature individuals. It is threatened foremost by deforestation.[1]
Forest owlet | |
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Forest owlet at Melghat Tiger Reserve | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Strigiformes |
Family: | Strigidae |
Genus: | Athene |
Species: | A. blewitti |
Binomial name | |
Athene blewitti (Hume, 1873) | |
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Current records in red and historic records in grey | |
Synonyms | |
Heteroglaux blewitti |
It is a member of the typical owl family Strigidae, and was first described in 1873. As it was not sighted after 1884, it was considered extinct for many years.[2] In 1997, it was rediscovered by Pamela Rasmussen. Searches in the locality mentioned on the label of the last collected specimen failed, and it turned out that the specimen had been stolen from the British Museum by Richard Meinertzhagen and resubmitted with a label bearing false locality information.[3][4]