Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Blakiston's Eagle-owl (Bubo blakistoni) - HBW 5, p. 193
French: Grand-duc de Blakiston
German: Riesenfischuhu
Spanish: Búho Manchú
Other common names: Blakiston’s Fish-owl
Taxonomy: Bubo blakistoni Seebohm, 1884, Hokkaido, Japan.
Sometimes placed in genus Ketupa, and has been treated as forming superspecies with, or even conspecific with, K. zeylonensis. Skeletal details, however, especially skull morphology, appear identical to those of Bubo (e.g. B. bubo) and different from osteology of Ketupa. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- piscivorus Meise, 1933 - W Manchuria (W of Great Khingan Mts).
- doerriesi Seebohm, 1895 - SE Siberia and extreme NE China, to Korean border.
- karafutonis Kuroda, 1931 - Sakhalin I.
- blakistoni Seebohm, 1884 - Hokkaido and S Kuril Is.
- Endangered Enlarge map
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A bird catching a fish and flying away with it. Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp blakistoni)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 1 year ago 54 sec 4.6 -
A male catching a fish and then eating it Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp blakistoni)
Aleix Comas 13 January 2010 2 years ago 1 min 18 sec 4.5
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adult
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan
AurélienAudevard 5 February 2010 2 years ago 4.5 -
A bird just after eating a fish
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp blakistoni)
Aleix Comas 13 January 2010 2 years ago 4.3 -
A bird just after eating a fish
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp blakistoni)
Aleix Comas 13 January 2010 2 years ago 4 -
Perched in a tree at Washi no Yado, in Rausu
Locality Hokkaido, Japan (ssp blakistoni)
Daniel Smith 12 March 2012 9 weeks ago 3.8 -
Adult perched on a telegraph pole
Locality Hokkaido, Japan
Martin Hale 29 May 2003 17 weeks ago 2.6
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