Description മലയാളം: കാട്ടുമൂങ്ങ.
English: Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl (Bubo nipalensis).
Date 26 March 2011, 22:54:57
Author N A Nazeer
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot-bellied_eagle-owl

The spot-bellied eagle-owl (Bubo nipalensis), also known as the forest eagle-owl is a large bird of prey with a formidable appearance. It is a forest-inhabiting species found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. This species is considered part of a superspecies with the barred eagle-owl (Bubo sumatranus), which looks quite similar but is allopatric in distribution, replacing the larger spot-bellied species in the southern end of the Malay Peninsula and the larger island in Southeast Asia extending down to Borneo. Order: Strigiformes, Family: Strigidae, Genus: Bubo, Species: Bubo nipalensis Hodgson, 1836.