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Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
Reuse-ooruil · Bubo lacteus
Africa's largest owl, a giant grey night-hunter with ear tufts and bold pink eyelids it flashes when blinking. Powerful enough to catch hedgehogs, hares and even other birds of prey, it hunts silently after dark on soft, hushed wings. By day it dozes high in big riverside trees, often near its huge stick nest.
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A huge grey owl with dark-rimmed eyes and unmistakable bright pink eyelids that show when it blinks.
Listen for its call
Deep, grunting 'gwok... gwok...' hoots from a big shady tree.
Where to see it in Kruger
Roosts in large trees along rivers and in tall savanna park-wide, often spotted by guides at known day-roosts.
Did you know
Those pink eyelids flash like a wink — a signal owls use to 'talk' to each other in the dark.
Often confused with
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