Ninox boobook
Southern Boobook at Wamboin, NSW
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| Ninox boobook | ChrisDavey | 8 May 2017 | |
| Ninox boobook | alicemcglashan | 3 May 2017 |
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User's notes
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
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?
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?
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
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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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
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Ninox novaeseelandiae Ninox boobook
Seasonal activity
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Nesting site
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