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Tawny or Himalayan Owl
Strix [aluco or nivicolum] (= Strix aluco) Linnaeus, C 1758
The tawny owl is commonly found in woodlands across much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has 11 recognized subspecies. It is a stocky, medium-sized owl, whose underparts are pale with dark streaks, and whose upper body may be either brown or grey. The tawny owl typically makes its nest in a tree hole where it can protect its eggs and young against potential predators. It is non-migratory and highly territorial: as a result, when young birds grow up and leave the parental nest, if they cannot find a vacant territory to claim as their own, they will often starve. Source: Wikipedia
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Strigiformes
Family:
Strigidae
Genus:
Strix
Scientific:
Strix aluco
Classification
Order:Strigiformes
Family:
Strigidae
Genus:
Strix
Scientific:
Strix aluco
Original description
Citation:
Linnaeus, C 1758
Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 10
1 p.93
Protonym:
Strix Aluco
Type locality:
Europe, restricted type locality, Sweden.
Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/111/mode/1up
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
2CD9FB4AE9C1214A
Avibase ID:
avibase-2CD9FB4A
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/2CD9FB4A
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 555428
Geographic range:
- Strix aluco aluco: northern and eastern Europe to Ukraine, Crimea, Balkans, and Black Sea
- Strix aluco sylvatica: Britain, France, Iberia, southern Italy, Greece, and western and central Türkiye
- Strix aluco biddulphi: Pakistan and northwestern India
- Strix aluco siberiae: Ural Mountains to western Siberia
- Strix aluco willkonskii: northeastern Türkiye, Caucasus, and northwestern Iran to Turkmenistan
- Strix aluco sanctinicolai: Zagros Mountains (northeastern Iraq and western Iran)
- Strix aluco harmsi: southern Kazakhstan southward to Tajikistan (foothills of western Tien Shan and Pamir Mountains)
- Strix mauritanica: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
- Strix nivicolum nivicolum: Nepal to southeastern China, northern Myanmar, and northern Indochina
- Strix nivicolum yamadae: mountains of southern Taiwan
- Strix nivicolum ma: northeastern China and Korea
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Source: Clements checklist
Tawny or Himalayan Owl
French:
Chouette hulotte ou C. de l'Himalaya
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| African Bird Club Checklist 2004: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist August 2005: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist March 2007: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist January 2008: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist May 2009: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| African Bird Club Checklist March 2010: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Tawny or Himalayan Owl ( Strix [aluco or nivicolum]) |
| Birdlife checklist version 00: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 01: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 02: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 03: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 04: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Chouette hulotte ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993): Chouette hulotte ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 1st edition: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 3rd edition: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 4th edition: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (as published): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2000 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2001 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2002 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2003 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2004 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2005 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.5 incl. 2010 revisions): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.50: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition: Eurasian Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition (incl. ? suppl): Eurasian Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.5: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Morony, Bock and Farrand: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Oriental Bird Club: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Strix aluco [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Strix aluco [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Strix aluco [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998): Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0: Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco) [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Strix aluco [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species group (sometimes a species)
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Arabic: البومة السمراء
Asturian: Curuxu
Azerbaijani: Adi yapalaqca, Boz (Adi) yapalaqca, Boz yapalaqca
Belarusian: niajasyć šeraja, няясыць шэрая, Шэрая кугакаўка
Bulgarian: gorska ululica, Горска улулица
Breton: Ar gaouenn penn tev, kaouenn penn-tev
Catalan: Gamarús
Czech: puštík, Puštík obecný
Welsh: Gwdihŵ goch, tylluan frech
Danish: Natugle
German: Waldkauz
Greek: (Κοινός) Χουχουριστής, chouchouristiis, Χουχουριστής, χουχουριστιής
English: Brown Owl, Common Night Owl, Eurasian Tawny Owl, Eurasian Wood-Owl, Gray Night Owl, Grey Night Owl, Tawny or Himalayan Owl, Tawny Owl, Tawny Wood Owl, Tawny Wood-Owl
Esperanto: arbara strigo, arbarstrigo
Spanish: Acárabo Común, Cárabo, Carabo Comun, Cárabo Común
Estonian: Kodukakk
Basque: Basontza, Gamarús, urubi, Urubia
Finnish: Lehtopöllö
Faroese: músagjóð
French: Chouette hulotte, Chouette hulotte ou C. de l'Himalaya, Chouette hulotte ou C. des neiges
Friulian: catůs
Frisian: wâldûle
Irish: avelaiona, curuxa laiona, ulchabhán donn
Gaelic: Cailleach-Oidhche, Comhachag Dhonn, Cumhachag
Galician: Avelaiona, Gamarús
Manx: hullad ghoan
Hebrew: לילית, לילית מצויה
Croatian: šumska sova
Hungarian: Macskabagoly
Armenian: [Antarabu ], Անտառաբու
Icelandic: Náttugla
Italian: Allocco, Allocco comune, Allocco eurasiatico
Japanese (romaji): mori fukurō, morifukurou
Japanese: モリフクロウ
Japanese (Kanji): 森梟
Georgian: ბუ, ტყის ბუ
Kazakh: Кәдімгі жапалақ
Korean: 올빼미
Korean (Transliteration): olppaemi
Cornish: perthuan
Scientific: Strix [aluco or nivicolum], Strix aluco, Strix aluco aluco
Ladino: ciuch
Luxembourgish: Bëschkauz
Lithuanian: Namine peleda, naminė pelėda, Naminės pelėdos
Latvian: meža puce, meža pūce
Macedonian: šumski buv, шумска утка, Шумски (Обичен) був, шумски був
Maltese: kokka
Dutch: Bosuil
Norwegian: Kattugle
Occitan: chòt
Polish: Pójdzka, Pójdźka, puszczyk, puszczyk (zwyczajny), Puszczyk zwyczajny
Pinyin: huī lín-xiāo, mù xiāo, sēn xiāo
Portuguese: coruja do mato, Coruja-do-mato
Romansh: Tschuetta, tschuetta (da guaud), tschuetta da guaud
Romanian: huhurez
Russian: nejasyt' seraja, Seraya Neyasyt, Неясыть обыкновенная серая, неясыть серая, Обыкновенная неясыть, Обыкновенная серая неясыть, Обыкновеннная неясыть, Серая неясыть
Sardinian: cuccubaju, i-stria
Scots: cailleach-oidhche
Northern Sami: bussáskuolfi
Slovak: sova lesná, Sova obyčajná
Slovenian: lesna sova
Albanian: Huti i kuqrremtë, kukuvajka e pyjeve
Serbian: šumska sova, шумска сова
Swedish: Kattuggla
Turkmen: alaca baykuş
Turkish: Alaca Baykuş, Orman Baykuşu
Ukrainian: sova sira, Сіра сова, сова сіра
Vietnamese: Chim Hù nivicon, Chim Hù xám, Hù nivicon
Sorbian, Lower: kiwka, spusk
Sorbian, Upper: kiwka, kwikawa, kwikawka, sutawka, wiwka
Chinese: 木鸮, 森鸮, 灰林鴞, 灰林鸮
Chinese (Traditional): 木鴞, 森鴞, 灰林鴞
Chinese (Taiwan, Traditional): 灰林鴞
Chinese (Taiwan): 灰林鸮
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