Northern Hawk-Owl (Surnia ulula)

Other Names (World)
Northern Hawk-Owl, Northern Hawk Owl, Hawk Owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
36 - 41 cm
Wingspan: 78 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Temperate grassland, boreal forest.

Range (Guide)

Canada (NB), China (mainland), Estonia (B) (NB), Finland (B) (NB), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (B) (NB), Latvia (E) (B), Mongolia (B), North Korea, Norway (B), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B) (NB), Russia (European) (B) (NB), Sweden (B) (NB), USA (B).

Vagrant to Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands Antilles, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (NB), Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine (NB), United Kingdom.

Population
Estimated population is 130,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (86)...)

Northern Hawk-Owl (Surnia ulula) [XC775956]
by Teet Sirotkin from Straumsbukta, Troms\u00f8, Troms og Finnmark fylke, Norway (alarm call, call, subsong)

Northern Hawk-Owl (Surnia ulula) [XC263930]
by Frank Lambert from J\u00e4rpen, \u00c5re Municipality, J\u00e4mtlands l\u00e4n, Sweden (alarm call)

Subspecies
Siberian populations, formerly separated as pallasi, included in nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

ulula (Linnaeus, 1758) - Northern Eurasia east to Kamchatka and Sakhalin, central Siberia south to Tarbagatay.
tianschanica Smallbones, 1906 - Central Asia and north-western and north-eastern China, possibly also northern Mongolia.
caparoch (M�ller, PLS, 1776) - Alaska through Canada to Newfoundland, south to extreme northern USA.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Northern Hawk-Owl (Surnia ulula) - 10 files

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