Spotted Eagle-Owl (Bubo africanus)

Other Names (World)
Spotted Eagle-Owl, African Eagle-owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
45 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1821)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, dry savanna, hot desert. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen (B), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (37)...)

Spotted Eagle-Owl (Bubo) [XC519852]
by Frank Lambert from Ebb & Flo area, Wilderness National Park, South Cape DC, Western Cape, South Africa (call)

Spotted Eagle-Owl (Bubo) [XC669444]
by Lynette Rudman from City of Matlosana (near Klerksdorp), Southern DC, North West, South Africa (duet, fowl)

Subspecies
Often considered to include Greyish Eagle-Owl (Bubo cinerascens) as a subspecies. Taxonomic status of subspecies milesi not well understood, possibly specifically distinct. Subspecies tanae perhaps only pale variant, as is form described from Namibia (trothae).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

milesi Sharpe, 1886 - South-western Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
africanus (Temminck, 1821) - Gabon east to Zaire (south of rainforest), southern Uganda and central Kenya, south to the Cape.
tanae Keith and Twomey, 1968 - R Tana and Lali Hills, in south-eastern Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Spotted Eagle-Owl (Bubo africanus) - 10 files

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