Pharaoh Eagle-Owl © birdguides.com

Vagrant to Senegal.

Forms superspecies with Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) and Rock Eagle-Owl (Bubo bengalensis), with Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) (including recently separated Magellanic Horned Owl (Bubo magellanicus)) and Cape Eagle-Owl (Bubo capensis) sometimes considered part of same group. Formerly treated as conspecific with Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• ascalaphus Savigny, 1809   -  North-western Africa and northern Egypt east to western Iraq.
• desertorum Erlanger, 1897   -  Sahara south to Mauretania and Niger, east to Ethiopia, Arabia and southern Iraq.

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