Scientific name:
Bubo

Natural spread:
Europe, Asia, Africa, America

through the adjustments of the people, that take the eggs and squabs from the nests, and the alto-birds catch or shoot, these biggest owls of the extermination are stärkstens threatened. The 66-73 cm long eagle-owls with a span until over 150 cm were and are popular exhibits also still today unfortunately - as well as "stuffed" living in aviaries as also.

Way of life The natural habitat of the eagle-owls includes both culture-landscapes, forests and rocky areas and semi-deserts, steppes and desert-areas of Eurasia, Africa (southwards until Mauritania, to the Niger and into the Sudan) and the Arabic area. Also the Nistgewohnheiten are accordingly versatilely: The female eagle-owls, who usually become considerably bigger than the males incidentally, lay rock-niches its 2-3 eggs into flat ground-hollows, had it gripping-bird-eyries, tree-caves and on bare rock-ledges and incubates it alone for 31-37 days. The Legeabstand amounts to 2-4 days; the female broods from the 1. Egg at. The Dunenkleid of the newly slipped boys is yellow-gray, the subsequent fleecy inter-dress against it more brownish with blackish cross-strips. After 5-6 weeks, the squabs molt this dunige inter-dress; they wander from this time on already under fluttering, can fly really well only with 9-12 weeks, however. While the female animal the young hudert, the male hunts alone, later, both partners create food here.

Eagle-owls hunt above all in the morning and twilight, more rarely also with night or on the day. They carry off mammals on that occasion until hare-size, birds (also gripping-birds) but mainly raven-birds, deaf u. ä.) and also smaller vertebrates, occasionally insects. they either look for its loot-animals in the silent Pirschflug or wait for an Ansitz on visiting loot.

The eagle-owl got its name on the basis of its Balzrufes; particularly in March (southern brood-areas) until May, the male birds are very reputation-joyful. The lute of the females is different; also, both sexes still have a repertoire at quite different tone-remarks. During a reputation, however, the beak, that becomes Kehlgefieder, remains resisted closed so that a wide, white bib becomes visible.

Endangering Although the eagle-owls prefer open culture-country as hunt-area, however, they are through the dense settling, that so disabled narrow streets and rail-net and the many overland-managements and endangers, that quite few areas only come in the German area in order to make a survival possible for these magnificent owls in question. The destruction of the habitat is the deadly danger for many types of animal of the "civilized world" beside the direct prosecution through the people and the pesticides. So, the eagle-owl is on the red list of the strongly endangered types with us.