Pel's Fishing-owl

Pel's Fishing-owl

Taxobox
name = Pel's Fishing-owl


image_width = 250px
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
status_ref = [BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/48539/all Scotopelia peli] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Strigiformes
familia = Strigidae
genus = "Scotopelia"
species = "S. peli"
binomial = "Scotopelia peli"
binomial_authority = (Bonaparte, 1850)
synonyms =

The Pel's Fishing-owl ("Scotopelia peli") is a large species of owl in the Strigidae family. It feeds nocturnally on fish snatched from the surface of lakes and rivers. The species prefers slow moving rivers with large overhanging trees to roost and forage from. [Simmons RE & Brown CJ (2006). [http://www.nnf.org.na/RAPTORS/raptors_pges/pelsfishingowl.htm Birds to watch in Namibia: red, rare and endemic species] . National Biodiversity Programme, Windhoek, Namibia ] It nests in hollows and the forks of large trees. Though two eggs are laid, only one chick is raised.

It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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