Ranking All 7 Continents By Their Largest Owl Species

Owls are arguably one of the most distinctive group of birds, and today they can be found in many different ecosystems around the globe. Some of these birds are rare small creatures that have to fear larger predators, whereas others are true giants and prey on a variety of animals across their range. In today's video we'll be focusing on the latter, as I'll be ranking all of the 7 continents based on their largest owl. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:40 Antarctica 1:30 Oceania 4:20 South America 6:40 North America 9:12 Africa 11:32 Europe 13:12 Asia Attributions South American owl images: Chris Jimenez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-a... CC BY-SA 2.0 FlightEditor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectac... CC BY-SA 4.0 Hector Bottai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff-fr... CC BY-SA 3.0 Nick Athanas https://www.flickr.com/photos/antpitt... CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Powerful owl footage: Ross Spirou Photography    / @ross_spirou_photography   Owls of Oceania images: JJ Harrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morepor... CC BY-SA 3.0 digitaltrails https://www.flickr.com/photos/digital... CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Western grass owl footage: Happy Birding    / @happybirding   Little owl distribution map: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_... CC BY-SA 3.0 Australian barn owl images: Sheba_Also 43,000 photos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 2.0 JJ Harrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater... CC BY-SA 3.0 Rajkimar99 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern... CC BY-SA 4.0 Bowerbirdaus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern... CC BY-SA 4.0 Blakiston's fish owl images: Takashi Muramatsu https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 Julie Edgley https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 Tokumi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Public domain Koji Ishii https://www.flickr.com/photos/koji110... CC BY 2.0 Verreaux's eagle-owl images: Kore https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 Joachim Huber https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 2.0 DickDaniels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ve... CC BY-SA 3.0 lozwilkes https://www.flickr.com/photos/lozwilk... CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Snowy owl images: Bert de Tilly https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 Powerful owl images: JJ Harrison https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 3.0 John Turnbull https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwtu... CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Nrg800 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerfu... CC BY-SA 3.0 Great horned owl images: Greg Hume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_h... CC BY-SA 3.0 Peter K Burian https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 4.0 BirdLife International 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_h... CC BY-SA 3.0 Elf owl images: Julio Mulero https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliom/... CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Greater glider images: Samrhorton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater... CC BY-SA 4.0 African barn owl images: Derek Keats https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 Rolf Tuinstra https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 Mikael Bauer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_owl... CC BY 4.0 I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images. Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/share-you... Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed :) Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerfu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughin... https://www.owlpages.com/owls/species... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_owl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verreau... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blakist...