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Blakiston`s Eagle Owl is indexed among the 16,386 entries in Vinony's Vulnerable Species collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Blakiston`s Eagle Owl is referenced by 53 other articles, and connects out to Hokkaido, binomial nomenclature and Kuril Islands.
It sits within the topics Apex predators, Birds described in 1884 and Birds of Japan.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Vulnerablevia IUCN
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- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- taxon name
- Bubo blakistoni
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- Bubo blakistoni
- taxon common name
- bufo-da-manchúria
- wingspan
- 184
- short name
- B. blakistoni
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Encyclopedic overview
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. It is native to China, Japan, and the Russian Far East. This species is a part of the family known as typical owls (Strigidae), which contains most species of owl. Blakiston's fish owl and three other piscivorous owls are placed with some eagle-owls in the genus Ketupa. Its habitat is riparian forest with large, old trees for nest sites near lakes, rivers, springs, and shoals that do not freeze in winter. Henry Seebohm named this bird after the English naturalist Thomas Blakiston, who collected the original specimen in Hakodate on Hokkaidō, Japan in 1883.
Taxonomy
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