Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Typical Owls :: Eurasian Eagle-Owl

Eurasian Eagle-Owl Bubo bubo

Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Northern Eagle-Owl, Great Eagle-Owl, Eagle Owl, Eagle-Owl, Common Eagle-Owl
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors

Photographs

Trêves, Rhone, Rhone-Alpes, France - May 13, 2001 © Pascal Dubois  Montagny, Rhone, Rhone-Alpes, France - Mar 23, 2002 © Pascal Dubois  Montagny, Rhone, Rhone-Alpes, France - Mar 22, 2002 © Pascal Dubois  Finland - Jun, 2002 © Giuliano Gerra and Silvio Sommazzi  Siberia, Russia - May, 2004 © Valery Moseykin 
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Range

Palearctic;
(1) Spain and Portugal (Montados in the Baira Baixa region). Formerly also in the Atlas Mountains of nw. Africa.
(2) W. Europe to Scandinavia and e. Germany (Hessen in the Kellerwald) s. to n. Spain, Hungary (Zemplen) and w. Russia to about Gor'kiy.
(3) C. Russia e. to foothills of the Ural Mountains and s. to lower Volga River.
(4) Romania and s. Ukraine e. to sw. Russia in the Volga Delta and s. in the Middle East (c. Israel, Syria, Jordan) and nw. Iran.
(5) Wc. and c. Asia from w. foothills of Ural Mountains e. to the Ob River and s. to w. Altai Mountains.
(6) C. and ec. Siberia from Ob River e. to Lake Baikal and s. to the Altai and n. Mongolia.
(7) Steppes between lower Volga River and Ural River e. to Transbaikalia and s. to Kazakhstan, ex. nw. China (Tarim Basin in nw Xinjiang) and w. Mongolia.
(8) Turkmenistan to w. China in Chinese Turkestan.
(9) W. Tien Shan and and Pamirs s. to the w. Himalayas of n. India (Ladakh).
(10) E. Iraq and Iran. Afghanistan, n. and w. Pakistan.
(11) Ne. Siberia.
(12) Se. Siberia in the Lower Amur Valley, Ussuriland and ne. China, Sakhalin, s. Kuril Is. and n. Japan (n. Hokkaido)
(13) W. and c. China from s. Yunnan and Sichuan e. to Korea.
(14) Se. China.

Videos

No videos are available for this species

Sounds

Location unknown - Date unknown Source: Biological Research Information Center, BRIC of Korea
Location unknown - Date unknown Source: ETI BioInformatics

References

Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist. Vista, CA: Ibis Publishing Company, 2000.

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