Scientific name: Bubo bubo
Height: 580mm to 710mm
Geographical distribution: Europe, North Africa, Asia and Middle East
Habitat: mountainous forest, semi-desert and rocky slopes

Diet: large birds and a variety of small- and medium-sized mammals including rabbits and hares, roe deer fawns, young foxes, hedgehogs and farmyard cats. Also frogs, newts and crabs
Status: widespread, but everywhere scarce, locally endangered

Here are the names of the European Eagle owls we have at the sanctuary:
JOE,  SAPHIRA, NYRA & DINGLE