Eurasian Eagle-Owl © juzaphoto.com

Vagrant to Bahrain, Gibraltar.

Forms superspecies with Rock Eagle-Owl (Bubo bengalensis) and Pharaoh Eagle-Owl (Bubo ascalaphus), 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. Sometimes considered to include Rock Eagle-Owl (Bubo bengalensis) and Pharaoh Eagle-Owl (Bubo ascalaphus) as subspecies.

A large number of additional subspecies named: populations described from Bashkirskaya (baschkiricus) included in sibiricus; from L Zaysan region (zaissanensis) in yenisseensis; from north-western Xinjiang (tarimensis) in turcomanus; from central Tibet and north-western China (tibetanus) in hemachalana; from northern Mongolia (dauricus) and Sakhalin (borissowi) in ussuriensis; from south-eastern Yunnan (jarlandi), Sichuan (setschuanus), Manchuria and northern China (inexpectatus) in kiautschensis; and from southern Kurils, Hokkaido and Korea (tenuipes) split between ussuriensis and kiautschensis.

The following 17 subspecies are recognised:

• hispanus Rothschild & Hartert, 1910   -  Iberian Peninsula; formerly also Atlas Mts in north-western Africa (probably extinct).
• bubo (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Europe from northern Spain and Scandinavia east to western Russia (east to about Gor'kiy).
• ruthenus Buturlin & Zhitkov, 1906   -  Central European Russia east to foothills of Ural Mts, south to lower Volga basin.
• interpositus Rothschild & Hartert, 1910   -  From Romania and southern Ukraine east to Volga delta, south to Middle East (south to central Israel and Jordan) and north-western Iran.
• sibiricus (Gloger, 1833)   -  From western foothills of Urals east to R Ob, south to western Altai.
• yenisseensis Buturlin, 1911   -  Central Siberia from R Ob to L Baikal, south to Altai and northern Mongolia.
• turcomanus (Eversmann, 1835)   -  Steppes between lower R Volga and R Ural, east to Transbaikalia, and south to Kazakhstan, extreme north-western China (Tarim Basin in north-western Xinjiang) and western Mongolia.
• omissus Dementiev, 1933   -  Turkmeniya to western China (Chinese Turkestan).
• hemachalanus Hume, 1873   -  From Pamirs and northern Tien Shan south to Himalayas.
• nikolskii Zarudny, 1905   -  Eastern Iraq and Iran, Afghanistan, and northern and western Pakistan.
• jakutensis Buturlin, 1908   -  North-eastern Siberia.
• ussuriensis Poliakov, 1915   -  South-eastern Siberia to north-eastern China, Sakhalin, northern Hokkaido and southern Kuril Is.
• kiautschensis Reichenow, 1903   -  From western and central China (south to Yunnan and Sichuan) east to Korea.
• swinhoei Hartert, 1913   -  South-eastern China.
• tibetanus Bianchi, 1906   -  Tibetan Plateau.
• tarimensis Buturlin, 1928   -  Eastern Tarim Basin (western China) to southern Mongolia.
• borissowi Hesse, 1915   -  Sakhalin and Kuril Is. (off south-eastern Siberia).

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