Tawny fish owl
OWLS OF INDIA-35[ Final one of this series] PAKHI DEKHUN PAKHI CHINUN # 767.. (Observe the Bird and recognize)... TAWNY FISH OWL .. WATERCOLOUR ...A4....2017...[ From the ref. Photo of INTERNET ] ... The Tawny Fish Owl[Bubo flavipes ] is a fairly large owl with tousled, horizontal ear-tufts. 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. This typical owl is found in subtropical to temperate forests in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, andVietnam. They inhabit the Himalayan foothills from Kashmir and Garhwal east to the mountains of Laos and
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