Ninox boobook

Southern Boobook at Wamboin, NSW

Ninox boobook at Wamboin, NSW - 3 May 2017
Ninox boobook at Wamboin, NSW - 3 May 2017
Ninox boobook at Wamboin, NSW - 3 May 2017
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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.

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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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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
  • 156 images trained Machine learning
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  • Synonyms

    Ninox novaeseelandiae Ninox boobook
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