From Gid Ferrer

Philippine Eagle Owl

Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center

02/2025

The Philippine Eagle-owl is a vulnerable species of owl belonging to the family Strigidae. It is endemic to the Philippines, where it is found in lowland forests on the islands of Catanduanes, Samar, Bohol, Mindanao, Luzon, Leyte and possibly Sibuyan.

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  • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    2 months ago

    Fishing owls are unique for being the least owl-like owls. Not really much facial disc, they don’t have fringed feathers, and more visually oriented than auditory, as they don’t need any of that to catch fish. The fish owls don’t seem to have gone as far away from the classic owl traits, as they have a wider diet and still hunt things that can hear them.

    Fishing owls are pretty poorly studied from what I can find, so there is still a bunch we don’t know about them.

    I need to do more Wikipedia diving in other countries. It blew my mind when I saw the articles were all different and not just translated to all the other languages. I know I saw much more on European owls from scrolling in some European languages.

    • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      It blew my mind when I saw the articles were all different and not just translated to all the other languages.

      Yet for animals, you will find similar content but try to look a bit at famous people! This one is famous in this country but not in this one. This one is internationally famous for there movie career but was first famous in there home country for there music. This one is a renowned poet founder of a genre but completely anonymous in an other country with a very related poetry genre. It is so fun to compare informations on different language pages and to gather them (^_^)