From Gid Ferrer

Philippine Eagle Owl

Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center

02/2025

The Philippine Eagle-owl is a vulnerable species of owl belonging to the family Strigidae. It is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found in lowland forests on the islands of Catanduanes, Samar, Bohol, Mindanao, Luzon, Leyte and possibly Sibuyan.

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    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      14 days ago

      Here it is a little more vertical. It’s a Ketupa genus owl, so it’s related to the loveable fish owls.

      • pseudo
        3·
        14 days ago

        Ah ! I knew it has egrets! On the main picture it looks like it doesn’t have it.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          14 days ago

          It’s trying to pull a trick on you. It waits for you to call him a chouette, and then it will pop them up and then act insulted.

          • pseudo
            3·
            14 days ago

            XD Are you reading my thoughts? I watch the picture and said “wait this can’t be a chouette. I know now: this is a philippin hibou!” Anyway, it seems that every eagle owl is an hibou. I’ve saw enough of them in this community to be sure know.

            • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
              3·
              14 days ago

              Eagle owls are all either genus Bubo (Eurasian Eagle, all the African and Middle Eastern eagle owls, Great Horned, and Snowy) or Ketupa (mostly eagle owls from India through Asia, plus the Fish Owls), and all those have egrets.

              The potential problem is the Fish-ing owls! Fishing owls are genus Scotopelia. We’re still trying to work out if they are actually part of Ketupa, or if they are their own thing. As those 3 fishing owls dont have egrets, they feel like they should be separated to me, but I leave that to the scientists!

              • pseudo
                3·
                14 days ago

                So I did a quick scanning on the wikipédia page of the Scotopelia. In french they are called fishing chouette. The Scotopelia peli give me hibou vibes, but yet like you said no egret. The feeling probably come from it size and the fact that I watch first picture of the two other fishing owl and those one scream chouette to me. They have this classical roundish color delimitation around the eyes with a small hooked beak very similar to the Tawny owl and to so far from the Western barn owl.

                We’re still trying to work out if they are actually part of Ketupa

                Interesting.

                There seems to be many gold-stared wikipedia article related to owls in english. That’s nice.

                • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
                  3·
                  14 days ago

                  Fishing owls are unique for being the least owl-like owls. Not really much facial disc, they don’t have fringed feathers, and more visually oriented than auditory, as they don’t need any of that to catch fish. The fish owls don’t seem to have gone as far away from the classic owl traits, as they have a wider diet and still hunt things that can hear them.

                  Fishing owls are pretty poorly studied from what I can find, so there is still a bunch we don’t know about them.

                  I need to do more Wikipedia diving in other countries. It blew my mind when I saw the articles were all different and not just translated to all the other languages. I know I saw much more on European owls from scrolling in some European languages.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        3·
        14 days ago

        I was going to say - its’ got the smooth confidence of a Buffy Fish.

        He looks like he’s about to take an engraved cigarette case from his coat pocket and discuss particle physics or jazz. Maybe both.