Spotted Owlet

About this species

This species has 212,223 occurrence records from 16 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (90.8%), Nepal (3.8%) and Thailand (3.1%); together they account for 97.7% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.31% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Athene brama combines the genus name Athene with the species epithet brama. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Athene; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Athene noctua, Athene cunicularia and Athene superciliaris.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 217 species of the family Strigidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Bubo virginianus. Its record count is 4 times the family average (52,528). The family Strigidae belongs to the order Strigiformes, which has 233 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Strigidae

• Little Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Tawny owl
• Mountain Scops Owl
• Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
• Jungle Owlet
• Northern Boobok
• Asian Barred Owlet
• Collared Scops Owl

Credits & data sources

• Wikidata
• GBIF.org