Glaucidium gnoma
Silhouette: Edwin Price · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The northern pygmy owl (Glaucidium gnoma) is a small owl native to western North America. Seven subspecies are accepted, of which three have sometimes been treated as separate species. The northern pygmy owl was formally described in 1832 by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler under the current binomial name Glaucidium gnoma based on a specimen collected in Mexico. The specific epithet is from modern Latin gnomus meaning "gnome", "dwarf" or "pygmy". Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cumbres de Monterrey National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society | 🇨🇦 Canada |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mountain Pygmy-Owl sighting in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, based on 104 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 115th most-seen of the 275 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May–July, October and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mountain Pygmy-Owl in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, April, August–September and November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mountain Pygmy-Owl sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cumbres de Monterrey National Park, in our data
Cumbres de Monterrey National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mountain Pygmy-Owl sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mountain Pygmy-Owl is recorded against all the birds logged in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (104 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
