The Great Horned Owl
The Great Horned Owl
The Great Horned Owl comes from the Strigidae family. Its scientific name is Bubo Virginianus. Bubo comes from the Latin word meaning "owl" or from the Greek word for "eagle owl" used by the 1st Century Roman naturalist Pliny (Gaius Plinius Secundus). Virginianus, meaning "of Virginia" is where the first specimen of Great Horned Owls was collected. Some other names for the Great Horned Owl are; Grand-duc d'Amerique, in French, and in Spanish is Busho cornudo. The common name "horned owl" comes from the large ear tufts. It is a solitary creature that likes to inhabit unsettled places. It is the fiercest and most powerful of the owls.
Great Horned Owls have a very large range. They are all over the United States and most of Canada, and southward to Central and South America to the Straits of Magellan. For their summer range, they resident across North America from northern Alaska and Canada through Mexico and Nicaragua and also in South America to......
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