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...