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Ketupa flavipes (Tawny Fish Owl)

Synonyms: Bubo flavipes; Cultrunguis flavipes

Wikipedia Abstract

The tawny fish owl (Bubo flavipes) is a species of owl. It used to be placed in Ketupa with the other fish owls, but that group is tentatively included with the eagle-owls in Bubo, until the affiliations of the fish owls and fishing owls can be resolved more precisely. It is clear from several shared characteristics that the more typical Bubo and fish owls are indeed related, including the structure of the talons, prominent ear tufts and plumage characteristics, unlike the superficially dissimilar fishing owls of Africa.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.41655
EDGE Score: 2.1302
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.104 lbs (2.315 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Fish [2]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  30 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  70 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [4]  71
Snout to Vent Length [3]  20 inches (50 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Buergeria japonica (Japanese Tree Frog)[1]
Buergeria robusta (Brown Tree Frog)[1]
Bufo gargarizans (Asiatic Toad)[1]
Odorrana swinhoana (Tip-nosed Frog)[1]
Onychostoma barbatulum (Taiwan shoveljaw carp)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Chinese Green Tree Viper, Stejneger’s Bamboo pitviper; chenbihuii)2

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Wu, H.-J., Y.-H. Sun, Y. Wang, and Y.-S. Tseng. 2006. Food habits of Tawny Fish-owls in Sakatang Stream, Taiwan Journal of Raptor Research 40:111-119
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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