Snyder's (Bubo virginianus scalariventris) Great Horned Owl 2004

Snyder's Great Horned Owl on the same nest as in 2003. This is a pale northern subspecies of the Great Horned Owl. Digiscoped on Manitoulin Island, 10 April 2004.

It takes the name Snyder's Great Horned Owl after L.L. Snyder of the Royal Ontario Museum who named the breeding population in northern Ontario as Bubo virginianus scalariventris.

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