Pearl-spotted Owlet
Road from Kakamega
to Lake Bogoria
28Oct2014
In the typical owl family Strigidae
...
often hunts by day...across
much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Glaucidium perlatum
(L 7-7.5")
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Spencer
Macaulay
Library
Glaucidium in Greek means little
gray fish(?); perlatum in Latin
means
with pearl-shaped spots.