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 LC    Great Grey Owl* Id (Atlas):
    Strix nebulosa Vagrant

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Great Grey Owl, Great Gray Owl, Dark Wood-owl, Lapland Owl, Lapland Striped Owl, Lapp Striped Owl (lapponica)

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
69 cm
Wingspan: 130 - 150 cm

First Described (Guide)
Forster, 1772

Habitat
Boreal forest. From sea-level - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Belarus (B), Canada (NB), China (mainland) (B), Finland (B) (NB), Kazakhstan (B), Latvia (E) (B), Lithuania (B), Mongolia (B), Norway (B), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B) (NB), Russia (European) (B), Sweden (B), Ukraine (B) (NB), USA (B).

Vagrant to Germany, Poland.

Population
Estimated population is 60,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (90)...)

 
Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa) [XC464329]
     by Nicolas Martinez from V\u00e4sterg\u00f6tland, Poland (song)

 
Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa) [XC743292]
     by Romuald Mikusek from Sobib\u00f3r Forest, W\u0142odawa, w\u0142odawski, lubelskie, Poland (begging call)

Subspecies
Population from Kentei Mts, in northern Mongolia has been separated as subspecies elisabethae, but doubtfully separable from lapponica.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • nebulosa Forster, 1772   -  North America, from central Alaska east to south-western Quebec, south to east-central California, northern Idaho and north-eastern Minnesota.
  • lapponica Thunberg, 1798   -  Eurasia, from Fenno-Scandia east to western Koryakland, south to Lithuania, northern Mongolia, north-eastern China and northern Sakhalin.



References
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Files:
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