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Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus - Amerikaanse Oehoe
North- and South-America.
The following 15 subspecies are being recognized:
Bubo virginianus algistus - West-Alaska;
Bubo virginianus lagophonus - Central-Alaska to Northeast-Oregon and Montana. Winters to Texas;
Bubo virginianus saturatus - Coastal Southwest-Alaska (Cook Inlet) to coastal Central-California;
Bubo virginianus pacificus - Coastal California to Northwest-Baja California;
Bubo virginianus subarcticus - Mackenzie and Northwest-British Columbia to Hudson Bay, Wyoming and North-Dakota;
Bubo virginianus pallescens - Deserts of Central- and Southeast-California to Kansas and South-Mexico;
Bubo virginianus pinorum - South-Idaho to North-Arizona and North-New Mexico (USA);
Bubo virginianus heterocnemis - Northeast-Canada south to Great Lakes Region;
Bubo virginianus virginianus - Minnesota to Nova Scotia, south to Kansas, East-Texas and Florida;
Bubo virginianus elachistus - South-Baja California and Isla Espírito Santo;
Bubo virginianus mayensis - Southeast-Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula);
Bubo virginianus mesembrinus - South-Mexico (Isthmus to Tehuántepec) to West-Panama;
Bubo virginianus nigrescens - Andes of Colombia to Ecuador and Northwest-Peru;
Bubo virginianus nacurutu - East-Colombia to the Guianas, North- and East-Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina;
Bubo virginianus deserti - Northeast-Brazil (Northcentral-Bahia).
Of this species there are also Nature Photo's available.