#1041 · 🐦 birds

Great Horned Owl

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Oehoe ·Bubo virginianus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paul G. Johnson · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Doug Grinbergs · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ben Hayden · CC BY 4.0
5. © Alvaro Monter Pozos · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Illinois, US:© Jeff Skrentny · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Carondelet Park, St. Louis, MO, USA:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. Richmond, CA, USA:© Michael Warner · CC BY 4.0
9. Vulture Mine Rd, Aguila, AZ, US:© Eric Hough · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Belgrove, Boulder, CO, US:© Sequoia Janirella Wrens · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The great horned owl ( Bubo virginianus ), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl , is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet is rabbits and hares, rats and mice and voles, although it freely hunts...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 95,077iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
95,077 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 (238 years ago).