The changing face of Britain's Tawny Owls
Year: 2014

The Tawny Owl Strix aluco is a familiar and widely distributed species throughout much of Europe and has eight recognised subspecies, two of which are of interest to us here. The nominate race Strix aluco aluco is resident from southern Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and eastern France to central European Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Italy (including Sicily) and through to the Balkans. Elsewhere, the subspecies S. a. sylvatica resides in Britain, western and central France, the Iberi