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The Verreaux's eagle-owl (but pointed out to me as the giant eagle owl) is the largest African owl. Owls weren't on the top of my list when it came to the fauna I wanted to photograph in Botswana, but I enjoyed photographing the large variety of other non-iconic species as well as the iconic ones.