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Micranthene whitneyi
Elf Owl
Authorship: (Cooper)
Description & Notes
there was a nesting pair of Elf Owls in a woodpecker hole in wooden IMRS HQ kitchen water tower legs; young fledged week of 27 June 2012. The owls return in April and were gone by October every year since 2010 through the present (J.D. Johnson, UTEP).
Collection Information
Records
it was observed 25 May 2010, 13 and 27 April 2012 at IMRS HQ by J.D. Johnson (UTEP) and G.H. Wiseman (UTEP) [Photo], and 2 October 2016 at Juniper Grove by K. Garza (UTEP) [Photo].
Recent Observations
Sourced from iNaturalist
No iNaturalist observations recorded for this species at IMRS yet.