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Citizen bird: Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
Subject: Citizen bird: Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
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Citizen bird: Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)


Citizen bird : scenes from bird-life in plain English for beginners / by Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues ; with one hundred and eleven illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
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Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/pageimage/7270916
Author Elliott Coues; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; Mabel Osgood Wright

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The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is a large owl native to the Americas. It is a powerful, mottled-brown predator that ranges from Arctic tree limits south to the Strait of Magellan. The Great Horned Owls are extremely adaptable birds with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Bubo virginianus is often more than 60 cm long, with a wingspan often approaching 200 cm. Its primary diet is rabbits and hares, rats and mice, and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, including rodents and other small mammals, larger mid-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates.

Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Bubo
Species: Bubo virginianus (Gmelin, 1788)
Synonyms
- Strix virginiana Gmelin, 1788

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