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- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- taxon name
- Bubo blakistoni
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- taxon common name
- bufo-da-manchúria
- wingspan
- 184
- short name
- B. blakistoni
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Encyclopedic overview
Blakiston's fish owl (Ketupa blakistoni), the largest living species of owl, is a fish owl, a sub-group of eagle-owls that specialize in hunting in riparian areas. It is native to China, Japan, and the Russian Far East. This species is a part of the family known as typical owls (Strigidae), which contains most species of owl. Blakiston's fish owl and three other piscivorous owls are placed with some eagle-owls in the genus Ketupa. Its habitat is riparian forest with large, old trees for nest sites near lakes, rivers, springs, and shoals that do not freeze in winter. Henry Seebohm named this bird after the English naturalist Thomas Blakiston, who collected the original specimen in Hakodate on Hokkaidō, Japan in 1883.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blakiston`s Eagle Owl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.