English: Boreal Owl, Tengmalm’s Owl
Russian: Мохноногий сыч
Mongolian: Савагт ариан, Савагт ууль
German: Rauhfusskauz
French: Chouette de Tengmalm
Japanese: キンメフクロウ (Kinme-fukuro)

Body length: 21-28 cm
Wing Span: 50-62 cm

Resident breeder
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 3-6 (occasionally 10)
Egg colour: Moderately glossy white
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least Concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Food: Small rodents such as voles, mice, shrews and small birds.

Habitat: Inhabits woodlands, usually conifers. They nest in tree holes, natural cavities and old nests of other tree nesting birds in coniferous and mixed forests in mountain taiga, forest steppe and valleys. Its flight is swift, slightly wavy and hunts from a perch or in flight.