Indian Eagle Owl Bubo bengalensis (Franklin)
Date 1832
Source A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, by John Gould, 1832. Painted by Elizabeth Gould.
Author Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bubo_bengalensis_Gould.jpg

The Indian eagle-owl (Bubo bengalensis), also called the rock eagle-owl or Bengal eagle-owl, is a large horned owl species native to hilly and rocky scrub forests in the Indian Subcontinent. It is splashed with brown and grey, and has a white throat patch with black small stripes. Bubo bengalensis was earlier treated as a subspecies of the Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo). The Indian eagle-owls are usually seen in pairs. It has a deep resonant booming call that may be heard at dawn and dusk.

Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Bubo
Species: Bubo bengalensis (Franklin, 1831)
Synonyms
- Urrua bengalensis