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Bubo virginianus virginianus (Northern great horned owl)

Synonyms: Strix virginiana

Wikipedia Abstract

The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet appears to be rabbits and hares, rats and mice and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, primarily other rodents and small mammals, but also larger mid-sized mammals, various birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. In ornithological study, the great horned owl is often compared to the Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo), a closely related species which, despite the latter's notably larger size, occupies the same ecol
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.985 lbs (1.354 kg)
Female Weight [1]  3.428 lbs (1.555 kg)
Male Weight [1]  2.544 lbs (1.154 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  34.7 %

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Earhart, CM and Johnson, NK 1970. Size dimorphism and food habits of North American owls Condor 72: 251-264
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0