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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 .
The brown fish owl (Ketupa zeylonensis) is a fish owl species in the family known as typical owls, Strigidae. ... 1926 – northeast Myanmar to southeast China, ...
The tawny fish owl (Ketupa flavipes) is a fish owl species in the family known as typical owls, Strigidae. It is native from southern Nepal to Bangladesh , Vietnam and China . Due to its wide geographical distribution, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List .
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 ...
During a seizure in 2008 in a storage facility in Johor, 14 frozen buffy fish owls were discovered that were supposed to be illegally exported to China. [13] In Jakarta, buffy fish owls were offered for sale in three bird markets in 2010 and 2012. [14] In 2015, 323 buffy fish owls were offered for sale through online raptor trading groups. [15]
This is a list of the bird species recorded in China. The avifauna of China include a total of 1431 species, of which 57 are endemic , and 3 have been introduced by humans. Of these, 108 species are globally threatened.
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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.