Greyish Eagle-Owl
Bubo cinerascensGuérin-Méneville, FÉ, 1843
English (US) Grayish Eagle-Owl
UK name: Greyish Eagle-Owl
The Greyish Eagle-Owl (Bubo cinerascens) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Strigidae (Owls) in the order Strigiformes.
Range: Senegambia to Ethiopia, Somalia, northern Uganda, and northern KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Bubo cinerascens
- Family
- Strigidae (Owls)
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Grayish Eagle-Owl
- English (UK)
- Greyish Eagle-Owl
- Described by
- Guérin-Méneville, FÉ, 1843
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Guérin-Méneville, FÉ, 1843
- Type locality
- Abyssinia; Adowa, Ethiopia fixed as restricted type locality by Grant and Mackworth-Praed, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., 57, 1937, p. 158.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 6 p.321
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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