Ninox boobook

Southern Boobook at Wamboin, NSW

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Identification history

	Ninox boobook	8 May 2017	ChrisDavey
	Ninox boobook	3 May 2017	alicemcglashan

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Haha might have to be trusted on this, these are screen shots of a poor phone video using torchlight. This is a small owl of Boobook-like shape and size. I haven't heard it call, but the only other likely candidate - Barking Owl is a bit large compared to this individual. Not a Frogmouth, not an Owlet Nightjar, too small for a Powerful Owl and not a Barn or Masked Owl. Seen twice in two weeks in the woodlands on our property, it's behaving like this is home.

2 comments

davidmcdonald wrote:

5 May 2017

Yes Alice, it could well be a Southern Boobook, the jizz is right.
But both the IOC and BLA/HBW taxonomies have the Southern Boobook as Ninox boobook, with Ninox novaeseelandiae being the Morepork/New Zealand Boobook.
Chris, what taxonomy is the CNM using for birds please? Clements, perhaps?

ChrisDavey wrote:

9 May 2017

Yes a Boobook, I cannot think what else it could be. David, CNM is using the same taxonomy as COG. I am waiting for the new Annotated List before I make any edits to names or taxonomic order

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Location information

Coordinates 149.366744 -35.241108
Altitude 823.5m
Places Wamboin, NSW

Sighting information

1 Abundance
3 May 2017 12:00 AM Recorded on
alicemcglashan Recorded by
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Birds Nocturnal Birds alicemcglashan Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Species information

Ninox boobook Scientific name
Southern Boobook Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
-8.4m to 1711.1m Recorded at altitude
157 images trained Machine learning
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Synonyms
Ninox novaeseelandiae Ninox boobook