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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Ketupa zeylonensis
- taxon name
- Ketupa zeylonensis
- taxon common name
- 褐渔鸮
- egg incubation period
- 36
- litter size
- 2
- short name
- K. zeylonensis
- taxon range
- Nanling Mountains
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
At Ranthambore National Park The brown fish owl (Ketupa zeylonensis) is a fish owl species in the family known as typical owls, Strigidae. It is native from Turkey to South and Southeast Asia. Due its wide distribution it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. It inhabits forests and wooded wetlands. Of the four living species of fish owl, it is the most widely distributed, most common and best-studied. It occupies a range of over 7,000 km (4,300 mi).
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brown Fish Owl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.