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Strigiformes / Strigidae / Ketupa

Buffy Fish Owl

Ketupa ketupu

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (bufowl2) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Ketupa

Subspecies (3)

Ketupa ketupu ketupu

northeastern India eastward to Vietnam and the Malay Peninsula, southward through Sumatra and its eastern satellite islands, Java, Bali, and Borneo (except coastal northwest)
Ketupa ketupu minor

Nias Island (off northwestern Sumatra)
Ketupa ketupu pageli

northwestern Borneo

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (bufowl2) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.