Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) [XC857631]
by Jelmer Poelstra from Slav\u00ed\u010d, Horn\u00ed Lomn\u00e1 (FM), Ukraine (song)
Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) [XC579328]
by snag. First the male compound hooting is heard, and the female immediately respond to its mate calling. The male is accepted at the nest, and at the minutes 00:50-01:00 the male produce a noise arriving at the nest and probably the female takes the prey. The male fly away thereafter, while the female continues calling for 4 minutes after the minute 1:25. Finally, the boreal forest returns to be silent again. from Bieszczady Mts., Gmina Cisna, leski, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Estonia (song)
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).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet