Observer le Kétoupa brun depuis un bateau de promenade !

The Brown Fish-owl (Bubo zeylonensis or Ketupa zeylonensis) is a large owl (around 55 cm in length and weighing 2–2.5 kg when fully grown) with prominent « ear » tufts which inhabits the warm subtropical and humid tropical parts of continental Asia and some offshore islands. The upperparts are reddish brown and heavily streaked with black or dark brown. The underparts are buff to whitish, with dark streaks and finer brown barring. The throat is white and can be conspicuously puffed, while the facial disk is indistinct. The irides are yellow, the feet a duller yellow, and the bill is dark.
This species is very nocturnal but it can often be located by the small birds that mob it while it is roosting in a tree. It feeds mainly on fishes, frogs and aquatic crustaceans; amniotes, in particular terrestrial ones, are seldom taken. If hungry, Brown Fish-owls will scavenge carrion.
Three to four subspecies are accepted today : the one that can be watched in Western Palearctic is B. z. semenowi, now very rare, with a small population (10 pairs estimated) in wooded mountainous areas in Souther Turkey, in Antalya region. A pair was discovered in 2044 in the Antalya Daglari ranges, then up to six birds were photographed in July 2009 in the Antalya region.
Until this year, it was a very difficult bird to to watch due its scarcity and ruggous habitat, but a bird was simply photographied in 2011 by a family on holiday in Turkey, on a guided boat trip on the Oymapinar Baraji reservoir ! Since the family didn’t know which owl it was, the photos were forwarded to the father of one of the participants. After the identification was given, the website Netfugl.dk has tried to solve the puzzle in order to forward as much detailed information about the record as possible. The bird was sitting in the part called « Little Canyon », a small flooded valley to the southeast in the Green Canyon/Oymapinar Baraji area.
Danish and Dutch birds visited the area in June and July 2011 and they quite easily watched and photographied one to three birds in the Little Canyon…