Did you know the largest owl in the world has a wingspan of around two metres? <\/p>
That title of largest owl in the world belongs to the Blakiston fish owl.<\/p>\n
A fully grown males weighs about 3.5kg, while the slightly bigger females can reach 4.6kg. More impressive, however, are the Blakistons\u2019 wingspans, which can be up to 200cm.<\/p>\n
Blakiston fish owl is found in China, Japan and north-eastern Asia, and to cope with the cold its feet are fully feathered.<\/p>\n
As its name suggests, the Blakiston fish owl preys on river-dwelling fish such as pike, catfish, trout and salmon, however if it is hungry amphibians and even small mammals are also on its menu.<\/p>\n
They are also one of a number of species that mate for life<\/p>\n
The IUCN Red List<\/a><\/strong> lists the Blakiston fish owl as endangered, due to habitat lost from human development, over harvesting of fish and being caught in fishing nets<\/p>\n It is named after \u00a0English explorer and naturalist Thomas Blakiston, who collected a \u00a0specimen in 1883.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> Main image \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Did you know the largest owl in the world has a wingspan of around two metres? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27032,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/whats-the-biggest-owl.jpg",2121,1414,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/whats-the-biggest-owl-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/whats-the-biggest-owl-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/whats-the-biggest-owl-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/whats-the-biggest-owl-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/whats-the-biggest-owl-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/whats-the-biggest-owl-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Did you know the largest owl in the world has a wingspan of around two metres?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/27031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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