Spotted Eagle-Owl (Bubo) [XC669444]
by Lynette Rudman from City of Matlosana (near Klerksdorp), Southern DC, North West, South Africa (duet, fowl)
Spotted Eagle-Owl (Bubo) [XC338964]
by Derek Solomon from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (song)
Subspecies
Often considered to include Greyish Eagle-Owl (Bubo cinerascens) as a subspecies. Taxonomic status of subspecies milesi not well understood, possibly specifically distinct. Subspecies tanae perhaps only pale variant, as is form described from Namibia (trothae).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
milesi Sharpe, 1886 - South-western Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
africanus (Temminck, 1821) - Gabon east to Zaire (south of rainforest), southern Uganda and central Kenya, south to the Cape.
tanae Keith and Twomey, 1968 - R Tana and Lali Hills, in south-eastern Kenya.