ketupa flavipes

The yellow-legged fishing owl has an orange-brown upper body from its forehead to its upper back, including shoulder feathers, with broad black-brown feather trunk lines. In addition to the back neck and upper back, each feather has light brown patches on both feathers. The wings are dark brown. The inner and outer feathers of the primary flight feathers have brown horizontal spots and terminal spots. The lower back, waist and upper tail coverts are dark brown with black feather stem stripes, and the tips of the upper tail coverts form sagittal feather tip spots. The tail is dark brown with 5 "V" shaped orange-brown spots and feather tip spots. The feathers on the head, neck and ears are orange-brown, and the center of each feather is black. The eyes are white at first, the ends of the feather shafts are black, the cheeks and chin are orange-brown, with black feather shaft lines. The rest of the underparts are orange-brown, with broad black feather shaft lines, and the black

The Yellow-legged Fishing Owl is distributed in southern Gansu, southern Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and Taiwan in China. Outside China, it is distributed in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Myanmar and Indochina.
The Yellow-legged Fishing Owl lives in broad-leaved forests and secondary forests near streams, river valleys and other water bodies, and mostly lives on trees by the river.

Yellow-legged Fish Owl, also known as Tawny Fish-owl, is a large owl with no subspecies.

Yellow-legged Fish Owl often moves alone, mainly going out to hunt in the afternoon and dusk, and sometimes also moves and hunts during the day. Especially on cloudy days, when hunting, they often perch on high branches by the river, looking down at the water surface. When they see food, they swoop down and grab the food with their claws. They will not fly away easily when disturbed, and their calls are like "whoo-hoo". They mainly feed on fish, but also on rodents, insects, snakes, frogs, lizards, crabs and birds.

The breeding season of the Yellow-legged Fishing Owl is from November to February of the following year. They like to use old eagle nests, usually lay eggs without repairing them, and also lay eggs in burrows or caves in the ground. Male and female live in pairs during the breeding period. Usually 2 eggs are laid per nest, and the size of the eggs is 56-59mm×45-48mm.

The Yellow-legged Fishing Owl has a wide distribution range and is not close to the critical value of vulnerable and endangered species survival (distribution area or fluctuation range less than 20,000 km², habitat quality, population size, and fragmented distribution area). The population trend is stable, so it is evaluated as a species of least concern.

Listed in the 2012 Red List of Endangered Species of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) ver 3.1 - Least Concern (LC).

Listed as a Class II protected animal in the "National Key Protected Wildlife List" issued by the Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Agriculture of China on January 14, 1989.

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