The Flammulated Owl is small with feathered ear tufts, gray or brownish gray body and dark eyes, with juveniles looking similar to adults.

References cited in Species Profile

• Environment Canada. 2013. Management Plan for the Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus) in Canada. Species at Risk Act Management Plan Series. Environment Canada, Ottawa. 6 pp. + Appendix.
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2015. Flammulated Owls. All About Birds. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Flammulated_Owl/id
• Linkhart, Brian D. and D. Archibald Mccallum. 2013. Flammulated Owl (Psiloscops flammeolus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/093
• Linkhart, B. D., R. T. Reynolds, and R. A. Ryder. 1998. Home range and habitat of breeding Flammulated Owls in Colorado. Wilson Bulletin 110(3):342-351.
• Phillips, A. R. 1942. Notes on the migrations of the Elf and Flammulated Screech Owls.Wilson Bull. 54:132-137.
• Reynolds, R. T. and B. D. Linkhart. 1987. The nesting biology of Flammulated Owls in Colorado. Pages 239-248 in Biology and conservation of northern forest owls. (Nero, R. W., R. J. Clark, R. J. Knapton, and R. H. Hamre, Eds.) U.S. For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-142.