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Verreaux's eagle-owl

Belgium. Antwerp Zoo.

 

Verreaux's eagle-owl, also known as the milky eagle owl or giant eagle owl, (Bubo lacteus) is a member of the family Strigidae and is the largest African owl. This owl is the world's third heaviest living owl, after Blakiston's fish owl and the Eurasian eagle-owl and the fourth longest owl, after additionally the great gray owl.

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Uploaded on June 6, 2014
Taken on June 6, 2014