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The great horned owl is the heaviest extant owl in Central and South America and is the second-heaviest owl in North America, after the closely related but very different-looking snowy owl. [ 7 ] [ 12 ] It is heavily built, with a barrel-shaped body, a large head, and broad wings. [ 12 ]
Among the latter, the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), in the Americas, and the Eurasian eagle-owl (B. bubo) are noted predators of barn owls. Despite some sources claiming that there is little evidence of predation by great horned owls, one study from Washington found that 10.9% of the local great horned owl's diet was made up of barn owls.
Great horned owl: Bubo virginianus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 181 Lesser horned owl: Bubo magellanicus (Lesson, RP, 1828) 182 Eurasian eagle-owl: Bubo bubo (Linnaeus, 1758) 183
Detail of an eye of an eagle-owl. The genus Bubo was introduced in 1805 by the French zoologist André Duméril for the horned owls. [2] The type species is the Eurasian eagle-owl. [3] The word bubo is Latin for the Eurasian eagle owl and was used as the specific epithet for the species by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. [4]
Great horned owl Bayley staring into the Raptor CAM and huddled by her owlets, HH5 and HH6, on March 24, 2024. After fledging Tuesday, the siblings made it back to the nest for a long-anticipated ...
A female great-horned owl has made a nest in a flower pot on a balcony in West Bend. The condo owners created a Facebook page to share the experience. Smith: Great-horned owl picks an unusual spot ...
The family Threskiornithidae includes the ibises and spoonbills. They have long, broad wings. Their bodies tend to be elongated, the neck more so, with rather long legs. The bill is also long, decurved in the case of the ibises, straight and distinctively flattened in the spoonbills. Three species have been recorded in New Hampshire.
The male owl is named for Gen. Joshua Howell, after the namesake of Ft. Howell on Hilton Head. ... Once full-grown, great horned owls’ inborn anatomy makes them exceptional hunters — with ...