Great Horned Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Strigidae

Genus

Bubo

eBird Code

grhowl

Subspecies (15)

• Bubo virginianus algistus

  coast of western Alaska (Kotzebue Sound southward to Bristol Bay)

• Bubo virginianus deserti

  north-central Bahia (northeastern Brazil)

• Bubo virginianus elachistus

  southern Baja California and Isla Espírito Santo

• Bubo virginianus heterocnemis

  northeastern Canada southward to Great Lakes region

• Bubo virginianus lagophonus

  central Alaska to northeastern Oregon and Montana; winters to Texas

• Bubo virginianus mayensis

  southeastern Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula)

• Bubo virginianus mesembrinus

  southern Mexico (Isthmus of Tehuántepec) to western Panama

• Bubo virginianus nacurutu

  lowland South America, from northern Colombia eastward to the Guianas, and from southeastern Peru eastward to northeastern Brazil and northeastern Argentina

• Bubo virginianus nigrescens

  Andes of Colombia to Ecuador and northwestern Peru

• Bubo virginianus pacificus

  coastal California to northwestern Baja California

• Bubo virginianus pallescens

  desert of central and southeastern California to Kansas and southern Mexico (Oaxaca)

• Bubo virginianus pinorum

  Great Basin and Rocky Mountains in western USA, from northeastern California and southern Idaho southward to northeastern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and western Texas (Guadalupe Mountains)

• Bubo virginianus saturatus

  coastal southwestern Alaska (Cook Inlet) to coastal central California

• Bubo virginianus subarcticus

  northwestern British Columbia to Hudson Bay, Wyoming, and North Dakota

• Bubo virginianus virginianus

  Minnesota to Nova Scotia, southward to Kansas, eastern Texas, and Florida