Owls in Guatemala
Our list for Guatemala has 8 owls recorded regularly there: 5 residents, 1 summer visitor, 1 winter visitor and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Guatemala in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 8, most common first
Ferruginous Pygmy-owlGlaucidium brasilianumResidentUncommon15–19 cmRecorded all year
Mottled OwlStrix virgataResidentUncommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
Northern Pygmy-owlGlaucidium gnomaResidentUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianusResidentUncommon46–63 cmRecorded all year
Stygian OwlAsio stygiusSummer visitorUncommon41–46 cmRecorded all year
Whiskered Screech-owlMegascops trichopsisResidentRare18–23 cmRecorded all year
Burrowing OwlAthene cuniculariaWinter visitorRare19–25 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Flammulated OwlPsiloscops flammeolusPassage migrantRare15–17 cmRegularly Apr–May
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made