Photo 669025, (c) Charles Thomas Hash, Jr., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Charles Thomas Hash, Jr.

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Associated observations

Photos / Sounds

What

Verreaux's Eagle-Owl (Ketupa lactea)

Observer

milletman

Date

February 7, 2014

Description

Large dead brown bird with feathered feet, a ruff of feathers on its head and neck, heavy blue-grey bill, large eyes and bright pink eyelids. Recently killed corpse was found partially submerged, in good condition (intact, before any damage by predators or scavengers) in the shallows of the northern end of the small pond that constitutes Bata Tank -- a small pond formed by an earthen dam on a small ephemeral stream in the northern part of Parc W. My guide and I pulled the corpse (our initial expectation was that it would be a Grey Heron) out of the water with a stick, and initially identified it as a Brown Snake Eagle, but further reading led me to revise this to a juvenile Greyish Eagle-Owl, Bubo cinerascens. Subsequent interaction with Jakob resulted in this final ID as Verreaux's (Giant) Eagle-Owl.

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