brown fish owl
bubo zeylonensis latin

It has been blamed for the extinction of the Brown Fish Owl.

Some consider them a specialized paleosubspecies of the Brown Fish Owl:

As mentioned above, the prehistoric B. insularis is sometimes included in the Brown Fish Owl.

Brown Fish Owls breed from November to March.

If hungry, Brown Fish Owls will scavenge carrion.

The Brown Fish Owl is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

Brown Fish Owl, (Bubo zeylonensis)

The Brown Fish Owl (Bubo zeylonensis or Ketupa zeylonensis) is an owl.

BROWN FISH OWL Ketupa zeylonensis.

Its fossil bones suggest a bird the size of a large Spotted Eagle-Owl (B. africanus), a bit smaller still than the smallest living Brown Fish Owls.

Thallium(I) sulfate was used in Israel to control the rodent population; it is suspected that in the 1950s, this resulted in the disappearance of the Brown Fish Owl.

The species epithet is derived from "bakamuna", the Sinhalese name for the White Barn Owl (Tyto alba), and the Brown Fish Owl (Ketupa zeylonensis).

Bandipur is home to over 200 species of birds including honey buzzards, red-headed vultures, Indian vultures, flowerpeckers, hoopoes, Indian rollers, brown fish owls, crested serpent eagles and changeable hawk-eagles.

There are terrestrial piscivores like the Kingfishers, Brown Fish Owl and Osprey and 31 aquatic species that depend on the rivers and streams inside the forest and the agricultural fields along the forest edge.

Grey Junglefowl, Pompadour Green Pigeon, Crested Honey Buzzard, Egyptian Vulture, Lesser Fish Eagle, Brown Fish Owl, Changeable Hawk Eagle, Peacock, Plain Flowerpecker are found in these hills.

Brown Fish Owl, (Bubo zeylonensis)

The Brown Fish Owl (Bubo zeylonensis or Ketupa zeylonensis) is an owl.

"Strix" perpasta - a true owl, perhaps the same as the widespread Bubo zeylonensis lamarmorae, a paleosubspecies of the Brown Fish-owl (Mlíkovský 2002) but this taxon was usually known from later times.