
Fish-Owls and Allied Eagle-Owls
Ketupa
Ketupa is a genus of owls in the family Strigidae. The genus formerly contained just three species, the fish owls, but based on the results from a genetic study published in 2020, the generic boundaries were altered. The genus now contains twelve species, nine of which were formerly placed in the genus Bubo.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 12 known species

Buffy Fish-Owl
speciesKetupa ketupu

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
speciesKetupa lactea

Brown Fish-Owl
speciesKetupa zeylonensis

Barred Eagle-Owl
speciesKetupa sumatrana

Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl
speciesKetupa nipalensis

Dusky Eagle-Owl
speciesKetupa coromanda

Tawny Fish-Owl
speciesKetupa flavipes

Blakiston's Fish-Owl
speciesKetupa blakistoni

Philippine Eagle-Owl
speciesKetupa philippensis

Fraser’s Eagle Owl
speciesKetupa poensis

Akun Eagle-Owl
speciesKetupa leucosticta

Brown × Buffy Fish-Owl
hybridKetupa zeylonensis × ketupu

Shelley's Eagle-Owl
speciesKetupa shelleyi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 20338.