Owls

Greyish Eagle-Owl

Bubo cinerascens

The Greyish Eagle-Owl (Bubo cinerascens) is a 500 g cliff and rock bird that eats mostly other vertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Owls

Order

Strigiformes

Weight

500 g

Habitat

Rock

Diet

Vertebrates, fish and carrion

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

23

Recorded in Ghana, Kenya, Gambia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Senegal, Cameroon, Chad, Liberia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burkina Faso, Central African Rep., Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Niger, S. Sudan, Mali, Somalia, Sudan.

Where to see it: Niono & L'Office Niger area (Mali); Malakal POC, Upper Nile, SS (South Sudan); Djoubissi (general area) (Central African Republic); African Bible College University campus (Liberia); Rafai, Mbomou, Central African Republic (Central African Republic).

Photo: (c) William Stephens, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist