Introduction
The Tawny Fish Owl is a fairly large owl with tousled, horizontal ear-tufts.
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Information
Distribution: From northern India to southeast China and Taiwan, as well as Laos and Vietnam.
![Range of Tawny Fish Owl (Ketupa flavipes)](species/rangemaps/tawny_fish_owl.jpg)
Range of the Tawny Fish Owl Ketupa flavipes
Status: Locally not uncommon.
Original Description: Hodgson, Brian Houghton. 1836. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal) 5: p. 364, pl. 26.