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The barking owl or barking boobook (Ninox connivens), also known as the winking owl, is a nocturnal bird species native to mainland Australia and parts of New Guinea and the Moluccas. They are a medium-sized brown owl and have a characteristic voice with calls ranging from a barking dog noise to an intense human-like howl.
The Australian boobook (Ninox boobook), is a species of owl native to mainland Australia, southern New Guinea, the island of Timor, and the Sunda Islands.Described by John Latham in 1801, it was generally considered to be the same species as the morepork of New Zealand until 1999.
Genomic studies of the extinct laughing owl of New Zealand indicate that it actually belongs in Ninox rather than the monotypic genus Sceloglaux. [5] The fossil owls "Otus" wintershofensis and "Strix" brevis , both from the Early or Middle Miocene of Wintershof, Germany, are close to this genus; the latter was sometimes explicitly placed in ...
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Boobooks are often confused with the barking owl; however, the easiest way to differentiate is by size, the boobook is a fair bit smaller. Mayr found that colour in southern boobooks may directly correlate with rainfall, with the paler species being found in areas of lower rainfall, indicating the semi arid regions of Australia (the range of ...
Red owl: Tyto soumagnei (Grandidier, A, 1878) 10 Western barn owl: Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769) 11 American barn owl: Tyto furcata (Temminck, 1827) 12 Eastern barn owl: Tyto javanica (Gmelin, JF, 1788) 13 Andaman masked owl: Tyto deroepstorffi (Hume, 1875) 14 Ashy-faced owl: Tyto glaucops (Kaup, 1852) 15 African grass owl: Tyto capensis (Smith, A ...
A renewed effort to list burrowing owls under the California Endangered Species Act just cleared an early hurdle. Conservationists say the situation for the owls that nest underground has only ...
The habitat of the powerful owl is tall, humid forests ranging through to some drier woodlands in northern Victoria and the western slopes of New South Wales and Queensland. They can be found in wooded mountain gullies, forested ravines, wetter, heavily timbered subcoastal ranges, coastal forests and woodland, and coastal scrub.