Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2013
In fact, in 2009, Wink et al. This new analysis again suggested that Snowy Owls (and the fascinating fish-owls ) are embedded within the eagle-owl complex. T]he abundant morphological differences between Nyctea and Bubo (in the classic sense) indicate that the results of the cyt b-based phylogeny contradict the morphological data.
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