African Long-eared Owl

African Long-eared Owl

Taxobox
name = African Long-eared Owl
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Strigiformes
familia = Strigidae
genus = "Asio"
species = "A. abyssinicus"
binomial = "Asio abyssinicus"
binomial_authority = (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
The African Long-eared Owl, "Asio abyssinicus", is a medium-sized owl with yellow eyes, a black bill and gray eyebrows. It is similar in appearance to the Long-eared Owl, "Asio otus", but is overall darker, and their ranges do not overlap. It has long, brown, white-edged ear tufts that are slightly centrally located on the head.Fact|date=January 2008

This owl prefers open grasslands or moorlands with oak or cedar forests, and it occurs in mountain valleys and gorges up to 3900 meters above sea level.Fact|date=January 2008 It lives in a large range in Africa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Ethiopia (BirdLife International 2007).

References

BirdLife International 2004. " [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/48606/all Asio abyssinicus] ". In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 January 2008.


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