Eurasian Eagle-Owl

The Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) is one of the largest owls in the world, ranging widely across Eurasia. The bird has distinctive ear tufts, upperparts mottled blackish and tawny, barred wings and tail, buff underparts with darker streaking, an ill-defined facial disc and striking orange eyes. Linnaeus described it as Strix bubo in 1758. It favours mountainous and rocky country but also uses woodland edge, shrubland with wetlands, coniferous forest and steppe, and occasionally farmland and city parks. A nocturnal predator, it takes mainly rodents and rabbits along with birds and larger mammals. The female incubates while the male brings food, and the pair tend the young for five months. Its range covers 51.4 million square kilometres and the population is estimated at 100,000-500,000 birds. Tamed eagle-owls are sometimes flown to drive off nuisance birds such as gulls.

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The Eurasian Eagle-Owl lives 15+ years.

The Eurasian Eagle-Owl grows to Females reach 75cm with a wingspan of 188cm, males slightly smaller; the largest specimens weigh 4.6kg.

Females reach a total length of 75 cm with a wingspan of 188 cm and males are slightly smaller; the largest specimens weigh 4.6 kg, matching the heaviest Blakiston's fish owls, though that species averages a little heavier and the great grey owl averages a little longer.