Shelley's Eagle-Owl (Bubo shelleyi)

Other Names (World)
Shelley's Eagle-Owl, Banded Eagle-owl

Family
Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Size
54 - 61 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sharpe & Ussher, 1872)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon (B) (NB), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B) (NB), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (B) (NB), C�te dIvoire (B) (NB), Gabon (B) (NB), Ghana (B) (NB), Liberia (B) (NB), Sierra Leone (B) (NB).

Sierra Leone and Liberia east to Ghana, and southern Cameroon and northern Gabon east to northern Zaire.

Population
Estimated population is 2,500 - 9,999 (2010).

Status VU
Habitat destruction and degradation through clearing of forests is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Shelley's Eagle-Owl (Bubo shelleyi) [XC797688]
by Christopher Hines from Parc National de Tai, Ivory Coast (uncertain)

Shelley's Eagle-Owl (Bubo shelleyi) [XC437523]
by id from Belize, Cabinda, Angola (call)

Subspecies
No obvious close relatives; may possibly have some vocal and morphological affinities with Barred Eagle-Owl (Bubo sumatranus) of south-eastern Asia.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Shelleys Eagle-Owl (Bubo shelleyi) - 10 files

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