Yellow-footed fishing owl, scientific name: Ketupa flavipes, alias yellow fish owl, etc., belongs to the chordate phylum, ornithischia, owl order, owl family birds.
Large (61 cm) brown fishing owl. It has tufts of ear feathers, yellow eyes, and fluffy white throat spots. Upper body: brownish yellow with striking dark brown longitudinal stripes but no spots on the tattoos. It is distinguished from the eagle owl in the yellow eyes and without feathers on the feet. It is distinguished from the brown fishing owl in that it has a bright brown body on the lower body, a heavier longitudinal stripe on the upper body, and a different call. iris - yellow; mouth - black, waxy film green; Feet - gray.
Eastern, central and southern China is found in Hangzhou, Linhai, Wenzhou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Anhui, southern Shaanxi, Shennongjia, Hubei, Wenxian, Gansu, Wanyuan, Chengkou and Leibo, Sichuan, Zunyi, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Taiwan to Guangdong, Jiangkou and Guangdong coastal and Taiwan. It reaches an altitude of 1500 meters. It may also be found in southeastern Tibet.
The Chinese population is estimated to have fewer than 100 breeding pairs. He often feeds by streams and eats fish, but also crabs, frogs, lizards and pheasants. Active day and night, it can also prey during the day, often resting on a large tree with dense foliage, until the yellow fault is active, it is not easy to fly away when disturbed, and it can make a deep whirring sound, or a deep woo-hoo call and cat-like meow.