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 LC    Fraser's Eagle-Owl* Id (Atlas):
    Bubo poensis

Description (10)
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Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
48 cm

First Described (Guide)
Fraser, 1853

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest, plantations. From sea-level - 1,600 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda.

Liberia east to western Uganda, south through Congo basin to central Zaire and north-western Angola; also Bioko (Fernando Póo).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

 
Fraser's Eagle-Owl (Bubo poensis) [XC716783]
     by Deville Tanguy from Mont B\u00e9ro, Guinea (?)

 
Fraser's Eagle-Owl (Bubo poensis) [XC841692]
     by id from Sembe ETIC office, Congo (Brazzaville) (call)

Subspecies
Fraser's Eagle-Owl (Bubo poensis) and Nduk Eagle-Owl (Bubo vosseleri) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include vosseleri as a subspecies of Fraser's Eagle-Owl (Bubo poensis).

May form superspecies with Nduk Eagle-Owl (Bubo vosseleri), and sometimes treated as conspecific.

No subspecies.


References
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Files:
JPG files for Frasers Eagle-Owl (Bubo poensis) - 10 files


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