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	 Strix macrorhyncha = Bubo virginianus nacurutu (South American great horned owl)
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 English: « Strix macrorhyncha » = Bubo virginianus nacurutu (Subspecies of Great Horned Owl)
 Français : « Strix macrorhyncha » = Bubo virginianus nacurutu (Sous-espèce de Grand-duc d'Amérique)
 Date	1838
 Source	Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux
 Author	Nicolas Huet  (1770–1830); Jean Gabriel Prêtre  (1768–1849)
 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bubo_virginianus_nacurutu_1838.jpg
 
 
 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. The South American great horned owl (Bubo virginianus nacurutu) is a subspecies of the great horned owl, Bubo virginianus, and is known to inhabit tropical South America. It generally occurs in more open areas than the North American great horned owls and avoids dense humid forest, such as the Amazon Rainforest.
 
 Order:	Strigiformes
 Family:	Strigidae
 Genus:	Bubo
 Species:	Bubo virginianus (Gmelin, 1788)
 Synonyms
 - Strix virginiana Gmelin, 1788
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