African Long-eared Owl
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| Asio abyssinicus (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) |
The African Long-eared Owl, Asio abyssinicus, is a medium-sized owl with yellow eyes, a black bill and gray eyebrows. It is similar in appearance to the Long-eared Owl, Asio otus, but is overall darker, and their ranges do not overlap. It has long, brown, white-edged ear tufts that are slightly centrally located on the head.[citation needed]
This owl prefers open grasslands or moorlands with oak or cedar forests, and it occurs in mountain valleys and gorges up to 3900 meters above sea level.[citation needed] It lives in a large range in Africa from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Ethiopia (BirdLife International 2007).
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BirdLife International 2004. Asio abyssinicus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 January 2008.
