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SpeciesStrigiformesStrigidae
Birds

🦉Eurasian Eagle-owl

Bubo bubo (Linnaeus, 1758)

Le Hibou grand-duc (Bubo bubo), également appelé Grand-duc d'Europe, est une espèce de rapaces nocturnes qui vit dans une grande partie de l'Europe et de l'Asie.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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22
Photos
3
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/23rd of your weight
Also called
Eurasian Eagle Owl, Northern Eagle Owl
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
2.67 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
68 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Eagle-owl

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.67 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female2.99 kgWikidataQ130933
  • Male2.38 kgWikidataQ130933

Figures vary

  • 2.69 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.24 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.44 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.08 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
68 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Rock
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.7 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian Eagle-owl yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderStrigiformes
  5. ›familyStrigidae
  6. ›genusBubo
  7. ›speciesBubo bubo
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderOwls · Strigiformes
  4. familyStrigidae
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderOwls · Strigiformes
  11. familyStrigidae
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More about the Eurasian Eagle-owl

Closest relative on this site
🐦 Black Woodpecker — last shared an ancestor ≈ 79 million years ago.
In other languages
výr skalný (sk), Буљина (sr), Berguv (sv), Puhu (tr), пугач звичайний (uk), 恨狐 (zh) … and 27 more languages
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Bubo bubo 1 (Martin Mecnarowski)Bubo bubo hispanus, Rosas, Madrid, Spain 1Arkipelet Solværøyene har Europas tetteste bestand av Hubro
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