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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. [3] It is native to China, Japan, and the Russian Far East .
Tawny fish owl in Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. The tawny fish owl's territorial call is a deep whoo-hoo. It also makes a cat-like meow. [12] Four tawny fish owls were equipped with radio transmitters in Taiwan and monitored from October 1994 to July 1996. They were mainly nocturnal, left their day-time roosts around sunset and ...
Three fish owls appear to overlap in range, the brown (Ketupa zeylonensis) in at least northern Pakistan, probably Kashmir, and discontinuously in southern Turkey, the tawny (K. flavipes) through much of eastern China, and Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian Far East, northeastern China, and Hokkaido. Fish owls are distinctively different ...
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. [1] It inhabits forests and wooded wetlands. [2]
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Habu, four different species of venomous snake that exist in certain islands including Okinawa, the Sakishima Islands and the Tokara Islands, but not on the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Hokkaido.
The genus Ketupa was introduced in 1830 by the French naturalist René Lesson for fish owl species from Java and India. [2] The type species is, by tautonymy , the buffy fish owl . [ 3 ] The genus name is derived from the Malay word Ketupok for the buffy fish owl.