Brown Fish-Owl (Ketupa zeylonensis)

Other Names (World)
Brown Fish-Owl, Ceylon Fish-owl, Brown Fishing-owl, Brown Fish Owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
49 - 54 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), Cambodia (B), China (mainland) (B), Hong Kong (China), India (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Israel (E) (B), Jordan (E) (NB), Laos (B), Malaysia (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Pakistan (B), Sri Lanka (B), Syrian Arab Republic (E), Thailand (B), Turkey (B), Vietnam (B).

Vagrant to Seychelles.

Unknown to Iraq, Lebanon (E).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and decreasing.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Brown Fish Owl (Ketupa zeylonensis) [XC448847]
by Qin Huang from Thikhong Substation, Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand (song)

Brown Fish Owl (Ketupa zeylonensis) [XC824092]
by Geoff Carey from Pak Sha O, Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong, China (distraction display \/ agitation calls)

Subspecies
Considered to form superspecies with, or even be conspecific with, Blakiston's Eagle-Owl (Bubo blakistoni), but skeletal details, especially skull osteology, of Blakiston's Eagle-Owl (Bubo blakistoni) appear identical to those of Bubo (e.g. Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo)) and unlike Ketupa.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

semenowi Zarudny, 1905 - Southern Turkey, Israel (probably extinct) and northern Syria to north-western India.
leschenaulti (Temminck, 1820) - India (south of Himalayas) east to Myanmar (except north-east) and Thailand.
zeylonensis (Gmelin, 1788) - Sri Lanka.
orientalis Delacour, 1926 - North-eastern Myanmar to south-eastern China (Guangxi, Guangdong), south to Malay Peninsula, Indochina and Hainan I.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown Fish-Owl (Ketupa zeylonensis) - 10 files

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