Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Brown Fish-owl (Ketupa zeylonensis) - HBW 5, p. 193
French: Kétoupa brun
German: Fischuhu
Spanish: Búho Pescador de Ceilán
Other common names: Ceylon Fish-owl, Brown Fishing-owl
Taxonomy: Strix zeylonensis J. F. Gmelin, 1788, Sri Lanka.
Genus Ketupa sometimes merged with Bubo, or treated as a subgenus. Present species then considered by some authors as forming superspecies with, or even conspecific with, B. blakistoni, but skeletal details, especially skull osteology, of latter appear identical to those of Bubo (e.g. B. bubo) and unlike Ketupa. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- semenowi Zarudny, 1905 - S Turkey, Israel (probably extinct) and N Syria to NW India.
- leschenault (Temminck, 1820) - India (S of Himalayas) E to Myanmar (except NE) and Thailand.
- zeylonensis (J. F. Gmelin, 1788) - Sri Lanka.
- orientalis Delacour, 1926 - NE Myanmar to SE China (Guangxi, Guangdong), S to Malay Peninsula, Indochina and Hainan I.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An adult perched in a tree Locality Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India (ssp leschenault)
Jean Hupperetz 27 November 2004 8 years ago 28 sec 4.7 -
An adult perched on a branch Locality Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India (ssp leschenault)
Jean Hupperetz 27 November 2004 8 years ago 30 sec 4.7 -
An adult perched on a branch Locality Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India (ssp leschenault)
Jean Hupperetz 27 November 2004 8 years ago 18 sec 4.5 -
A distant bird standing on a branch and preening Locality Arunachal Pradesh, India (ssp leschenault)
John Gregory 31 March 2007 5 years ago 28 sec 4.3 -
A bird perched in a tree, turning it's head. Locality Yala (Ruhunu) National Park , Sri Lanka (ssp zeylonensis)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 July 2007 4 years ago 22 sec 4 -
A bird on a branch, looking alert to the camera Locality India (ssp leschenault)
John Gregory 2002 5 years ago 13 sec 3.9
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Brown Fish Owl
Locality Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India (ssp leschenault)
subharghya 20 November 2008 4 years ago 4.8 -
It was taken under shadow of Arbutus andrachne tree on vertical rock surface, before noon.
Locality Manavgat, Antalya Province, Turkey (ssp semenowi)
ahmet karataş 28 April 2012 1 year ago 4.1 -
Adult perched over a stream
Locality Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India (ssp leschenault)
Bruno Schmetz 27 November 2004 4 years ago 4 -
A bird perched
Locality Masinagudi, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India
vasanthan.p.j 22 July 2012 47 weeks ago 3.9 -
A bird perched
Locality The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India (ssp leschenaulti)
vasanthan.p.j 19 March 2010 3 years ago 3.4 -
A Bird perched
Locality Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, India (ssp leschenault)
vasanthan.p.j 29 July 2009 3 years ago 3.3
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Calling in morning near Waterbody in a forest Locality Rajasthan, India
(ssp leschenault)
RAM GOPAL SONI 1 April 2003 3 years ago 3.5
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