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Asian Barred Owlet
Glaucidium cuculoides · Family Strigidae
Glaucidium cuculoides
Family Strigidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 72,621
- Countries and territories with records
- 18
About this species
This species has 72,621 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (48.6%), Thailand (24.9%), Cambodia (5.4%), China (4.8%) and Vietnam (3.4%); together they account for 87.2% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.057% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Glaucidium cuculoides combines the genus name Glaucidium with the species epithet cuculoides. The Warbla app catalog lists 26 species of the genus Glaucidium; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Glaucidium brasilianum, Glaucidium passerinum and Glaucidium radiatum.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 217 species of the family Strigidae. This species ranks 30th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Bubo virginianus. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (52,528). The family Strigidae belongs to the order Strigiformes, which has 233 species in the Warbla app catalog.