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Near Threatenedvia IUCN
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- Bubo sumatranus
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- taxon common name
- bufo-malaio
- short name
- B. sumatranus
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Encyclopedic overview
The barred eagle-owl (Ketupa sumatrana), also called the Malay eagle-owl, is a species of eagle owl in the family Strigidae. It is a member of the large genus Ketupa, which is found on most of the world's continents. This relatively little-known species is found from the southern Malay Peninsula down a string of several of the larger southeast Asian islands to as far as Borneo. It forms a superspecies with the physically similar but larger spot-bellied eagle-owl (Ketupa nipalensis), although the two species appear to be allopatric in distribution.
Distribution and habitat
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malay Eagle-owl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.