Verreaux's Eagle-Owl (Bubo lacteus)

Other Names (World)
Verreaux's Eagle-Owl, Giant Eagle-Owl, Milky Eagle-Owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
66 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1820)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and shrubland, dry grassland, dry savanna, plantations. From sea-level - 3000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho (E) (B), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Tropical western Africa patchily from Senegal and central Mali east to Cameroon, and from central Sudan, northern Ethiopia and Somalia south to South Africa.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl (Bubo lacteus) [XC444337]
by paulo kivuyo from Nchorora Spring, Lake Bogoria, Kenya (song)

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl (Bubo lacteus) [XC637531]
by Dries Van de Loock from Maweni, Meru, Arusha Region, Tanzania (call, song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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