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WILDLIFE SPECIES: Bubo virginianus | Great Horned Owl 



ABBREVIATION : 
BUVI

COMMON NAMES : 
   great horned owl
   big-eared owl
   hoot owl
   cat owl


TAXONOMY : 
The currently accepted scientific name of great horned owl is Bubo
virginianus (Gmelin) [38].  The widespread yet sedentary nature of the
great horned owl has given rise to a number of races and subspecies,
probably due to lack of interbreeding.  Accepted subspecies and their
common names are as follows [2,24,25]:

Bubo virginianus ssp. virginianus (Gmelin), great horned owl
B. v. ssp. algistus (Oberholser), St. Michael horned owl
B. v. ssp. heterocnemis (Oberholser), Labrador horned owl
B. v. ssp. lagophonus (Oberholser), northwestern horned owl
B. v. ssp. occidentalis Stone, Montana horned owl
B. v. ssp. pacificus Cassin, Pacific horned owl
B. v. ssp. pallascens Stone, western horned owl
B. v. ssp. saturatus Ridgway, dusky horned owl
B. v. ssp. scalariventris Snyder, Ontario horned owl
B. v. ssp. subarcticus (Hoy), arctic horned owl  
B. v. ssp. wapacuthu (Gmelin), tundra horned owl


ORDER : 
Strigiformes

CLASS : 
Bird

FEDERAL LEGAL STATUS : 
No special status

OTHER STATUS : 
NO-ENTRY


COMPILED BY AND DATE : 
Janet Sullivan, April 1995


LAST REVISED BY AND DATE : 
NO-ENTRY


AUTHORSHIP AND CITATION : 
Sullivan, Janet. 1995. Bubo virginianus. In: Remainder of Citation

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Bubo virginianus | Great Horned Owl