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title: "Puchacz plamisty"
description: "Bubo africanus — Ptaki. The spotted eagle-owl (Bubo africanus), also known as the African spotted eagle-owl and the African eagle-owl, is a medium-sized species of owl, one of the smallest of the eagle owls."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/spotted-eagle-owl
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Puchacz plamisty

> Bubo africanus — Ptaki. The spotted eagle-owl (Bubo africanus), also known as the African spotted eagle-owl and the African eagle-owl, is a medium-sized species of owl, one of the smallest of the eagle owls.

- Scientific name: *Bubo africanus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Sawanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 5144
- Wikidata: [Q513224](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513224)
- iNaturalist taxon: [204470](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204470)

## Names

- en: Spotted Eagle-Owl
- de: Fleckenuhu
- es: Buhó Manchado
- fr: Grand-duc africain
- nl: Afrikaanse oehoe
- pt: Bufo-malhado
- pl: Puchacz plamisty

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (4070), NA (174), TZ (109), MW (90), KE (75), BW (67), ZW (57), ZM (41), MZ (33), AO (18), RW (12), SZ (9)

## Summary

The spotted eagle-owl (Bubo africanus), also known as the African spotted eagle-owl and the African eagle-owl, is a medium-sized species of owl, one of the smallest of the eagle owls. Its length is 45 cm (18 in) and its weight is from 454 to 907 grams (1.0 to 2.0 lb). It has a 100 to 140 cm (39 to 55 in) wingspan. The facial disk is off-white to pale ochre and the eyes are yellow. It has prominent ear-tufts, and the upper body is dusky brown, the lower parts off-white with brown bars.  Prior to 1999 the spotted eagle-owl was considered conspecific with the greyish eagle-owl, but now it is classed as a separate species.

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

## Photo

![Puchacz plamisty](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotted-eagle-owl/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jonathan Whitaker · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/95136467

## Machine access

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