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The Austral pygmy-owl is very similar to other pygmy-owls in the Northern Hemisphere: a small, brownish, big-footed, long-tailed owlet that is often out in the daytime. Pygmy-owls have a fast, direct flight and often feed on small birds. Consequently, they are very unpopular with other bird species, which frantically mob any pygmy-owl they encounter. The Austral pygmy-owl has a simple call of rapidly repeated short whistles: toot-toot-toot-toot-toot..., and the call alone can elicit the mobbing response in small birds. This one stayed high in a southern beech tree -- always partially behind leaves -- near Lago Grey in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine in southern Chile. |
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