Manufacturer: Hansa
Category: Birds
A Fish Owl by Hansa with airbrushed details and varying lengths, colours and textures of fur fabric. It has support in its feet to aid balance and the wings are stitched to the body down the centre so can be outstretched.
It has an educational tag attached with facts about Blakiston's Fish Owl along with a small booklet of some of the other Hansa creations.
Made from the finest materials, synthetic fabric and poly fibre filling, to the highest standards.
Size approx.10.25"(26cm) in height and 11"(28cm) in length from top of head to tip of wings.
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) is the largest living species of owl. It belongs to a fish owl, a sub-group of eagle owls which specialize in hunting in riparian areas. This species is a part of the family known as typical owls (Strigidae) which contains most species of owl. Henry Seebohm named this bird after the English naturalist Thomas Blakiston, who collected the original specimen in Hakodate on Hokkaido, Japan, in 1883.
The Blakiston’s fish owl somewhat resembles the Eurasian eagle-owl but is more monochromatically brown to tan in colour.
Blakiston's fish owls occur in Russia, China, and Japan. They don't migrate and live in dense old-growth forests near waterways or wooded coastlines. Their preferred habitat is riparian forest, with large, old trees for nest sites, near lakes, rivers, springs, and shoals that don't freeze in winter.