Scientific name:
Glaucidium passerinum

Natural spread:
Central Europe

the sparrow-codger lives in the needle-forests of mountainous areas the native owls as smallest. its height amounts to 16 to 18 cm, its weight 50 for 75 g. The sparrow-codger corrected a wing-span of 35 - 40 cm reached.

it is in contrast to the other owl-birds twilight - and day-active. Small-mammals and small-birds, with what it can however also occur, are preferred by it carried off that the loot gains its own height or even surpasses.

Sparrow-codgers populate above all richly jointed spruce-forests and softwood-rich Mischwälder until 1800m over the sea level. A sufficient offer of caves essentially is, which as deuces, hatcheries and during the winter-months also as food-storage is used.