#ketupa

[herpsandbirds]

Philippine Eagle-Owl (Ketupa philippensis), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Philippines

photograph by Gid Ferrer

[snototter]

A Blakiston's fish owl (Ketupa blakistoni), the largest living species of owl, in Hokkaidō, Japan

by Gary Faulkner

[saint-nevermore]

barred eagle owl for dinovember, as it turns out there is no easy way to draw owl feathers

[best-bird-tournament]

Ketupa owl tiebreaker

Which is the best bird?

Blakiston's fish owl

Spot-bellied eagle-owl

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[thebeastsofindia]

Spot Bellied Eagle Owl (Ketupa nipalensis), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Maharashtra, India

Photo by Amul Mutha

[birdblues]

Spot-bellied Eagle-owl

[wonder-rooms]

The Great Ceylonese Eared Owl, Nouvelles Illustrations de Zoologie (1776) - Peter Brown

[exaflux]

[27/06/2022 Edit: This is another OC I gave away years back] I created this OC after making a joke with @dankrobotowl and it quickly spiralled out of control. I’ve never even played Owlboy before (which sucks because it looks great) but I guess I have an OC for it now so-

Manly is one way to describe Ketupa. Manly, intimidating and lastly but most importantly beefy. One day he turned up at an inn mysteriously and no one knows where he came from. After being fed some meat by the inn's owners he simply never left and lived with them from then on, and he's been around that long in fact that he wound up being employed by them as their labourer with seemingly no formal application involved. From what little is known about Ketupa other than him being beefy is that his childhood mentor often shit-talked him over his crappy flying skills. However, unlike many owls who just got gud, he instead got absolutely ripped. Since then he's spent his time making up for his still seriously lacking flying skills with his inhuman strength and extreme enthusiasm to punch literally everything. On top of that it's common knowledge that he's a bit of a glutton but that this gluttony is only directed towards meat, which has led to him adopting his current diet of meat, ale and the occasional piece of broccoli. Also known is his quietness and tendency to sit in some secluded place in the inn in his down time with a pint in hand, staring at people, menacingly. Even if one notices that he's staring though with his seemingly constantly closed eyes, chances are they won't approach and tell him to stop because he's just so god damned intimidating with all his beef. Despite all beefy appearances and what others may think he defies the typical beefy stereotypes, instead having his quiet nature hide his deep thoughts that consist of things other than meat, punching things and beef. It appears that his cape is much too small for his sheer manly amount of beef which he possesses which is perhaps to be one of the reasons he can't fly properly (the other reasons are thought to be because his body is so heavy due to his amount of beef and that he never learnt how to fly properly in the first place). When asked about why he never got a proper cape for his size he responds by saying that it was a gift from his mother and leaving it at that. Ketupa seems to respond to titles such as "The Beef", "Supreme Beefy Overlord", "The Final Beef" or any number of titles which speak reference to how beefy he is.