Observations remarquables de la Chevêchette nimbée au Pérou

A survey team in Northern Peru monitoring the Abra Patricia-Alto Nieva Private Conservation Area encountered three times during daylight hours and frequently recorded its calls at night one Long-whiskered Owlet Xenoglaux loweryi, among the most enigmatic, and least known of South America’s birds.
Since its discovery in 1976, Long-whiskered Owlet has been recorded on just a few occasions in spite of intensive searches.
Several photographs were also taken of an owlet captured in a mist-net and later released onto a tree branch where it posed for the cameras before disappearing into the night.
Long-whiskered Owlet is listed as Endangered, on account of its small range and the rapid destruction of its forest habitat in the isolated ridges in the eastern Andes of Amazonas and San Martín, north Peru.
As part of their Northern Peru Project, ECOAN, in partnership with American Bird Conservancy (ABC), began purchasing parcels of land from local land owners in the Abra Patricia-Alto Nieva area in 2005.