Western Bird Guide: Birds of the Rockies and West to the Pacific

by Charles K. Reed

FERRUGINOUS PYGMY OWL.

380. Glaucidium phalænoides. 7 inches.

This is very similar to the last, but in color is much more rufous on the upper parts, and the tail is of a bright chestnut color crossed by several bands of black. They live largely on the small rodents and birds which they secure during the daytime. They nest in hollow cavities of trees, from ten to forty feet from the ground, laying four glossy white eggs (1.10 × .90).