Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) [XC469494]
by Peter Mattsson from Slyudyansky District, Buryatia, Sweden (call, song)
Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) [XC469492]
by from Ume\u00e5 stad, V\u00e4sterbottens l\u00e4n, Sweden (call)
Subspecies
Probably forms superspecies with Sichuan Wood-Owl (Strix davidi), which is usuially considered a subspecies of Ural Owl (Strix uralensis).
Subspecies liturata intergrades with nominate uralensis. Several additional named subspecies considered inseparable: birds described from Carpathians (carpathica) merged with macroura; those from L Baikal to western Amurland (daurica), from Sakhalin (tatibanai) and from north-eastern China and Korea (coreensis) merged with nikolskii; those from central Honshu (momiyamae) included in hondoensis.
The following 10 subspecies are recognised:
liturata Lindroth, 1788 - Northern Europe and north-western Russia (east to about Arkhangel'sk region), south to northern Poland, Belarus and middle R Volga.
uralensis Pallas, 1771 - From eastern European Russia east to Okhotsk coast.
macroura Wolf, 1810 - Central and south-eastern Europe (from Carpathian Mts south to Bulgaria, and in western Balkans).
yenisseensis Buturlin, 1915 - Central Siberian plateau.
nikolskii (Buturlin, 1907) - Transbaikalia east to Sakhalin, south to north-eastern China and Korea.
japonica (Clark, AH, 1907) - Hokkaido.
hondoensis (Clark, AH, 1907) - Northern and central Honshu.
fuscescens Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 - Southern Honshu south to Kyushu.
daurica Stegmann, 1929 - South-central Siberia and north-eastern Mongolia to western and northern Amurland (south-eastern Siberia) and western and northern Manchuria (north-eastern China).
momiyamae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931 - Central Honshu (Japan).