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title: "Ural Owl"
description: "Strix uralensis — Birds. The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) is a large nocturnal owl."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/ural-owl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ural Owl

> Strix uralensis — Birds. The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) is a large nocturnal owl.

- Scientific name: *Strix uralensis*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 8301
- Wikidata: [Q190083](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190083)
- iNaturalist taxon: [19910](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/19910)

## Names

- en: Ural Owl
- de: Habichtskauz
- es: Cárabo uralense
- fr: Chouette de l'Oural
- nl: Oeraluil
- pt: Coruja-dos-urais
- pl: Puszczyk uralski

## Countries with the most observations

RU (6157), JP (176), FI (166), RO (147), UA (85), PL (77), SI (68), CN (62), AT (57), CZ (57), SK (47), HU (36)

## Summary

The Ural owl (Strix uralensis) is a large nocturnal owl. It is a member of the true owl family, Strigidae. The Ural owl is a member of the genus Strix, that is also the origin of the family's name under Linnaean taxonomy. Both its common name and scientific name refer to the Ural Mountains of Russia where the type specimen was collected. However, this species has an extremely broad distribution that extends as far west as much of Scandinavia, montane eastern Europe, and, sporadically, central Europe, thence sweeping across the Palearctic broadly through Russia to as far east as Sakhalin and throughout Japan. The Ural…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_owl

## Photo

![Ural Owl](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/ural-owl/medium.jpg)

Photo: Patrascu Lucian-Marius · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108734507

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/ural-owl?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).