Shelley's Eagle-Owl
Ketupa shelleyi(Sharpe, RB; Ussher, HT, 1872)
English (US) Shelley's Eagle-Owl
The Shelley's Eagle-Owl (Ketupa shelleyi) 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: Sierra Leone and Liberia to Cameroon, Gabon, and northeastern Democratic Republic of the CongoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ketupa shelleyi
- Family
- Strigidae (Owls)
- Order
- Strigiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Shelley's Eagle-Owl
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB; Ussher, HT, 1872)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Huhua shelleyi
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB; Ussher, HT, 1872)
- Type locality
- Fantee, Gold Coast.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.3, vol.2, no.6 p.182
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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