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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.
Elf owl, Micrathene whitneyi [1] Great gray owl, Strix nebulosa [1] Northern saw-whet owl, Aegolius acadicus [1] Boreal owl, Aegolius funereus [1] Burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia [1] Powerful owl, Ninox strenua [2] Barking owl, Ninox connivens [2] Southern boobook, Ninox boobook [2] Tasmanian boobook, Ninox leucopsis [2] Rufous owl, Ninox ...
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.
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 ...
The burrowing owl lives its life the opposite of most owls. Rather than being active at night and living in trees, this bird spends the day awake and makes its home on the ground, Magle said.
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 Ninox (Olson 1985), but is now in Intutula. "Strix" edwardsi from the Late Miocene of La Grive St. Alban, France, might also belong into this group.
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The typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. Rufous owl, Ninox rufa; Powerful owl, Ninox strenua; Barking owl, Ninox connivens; Southern boobook, Ninox boobook; Morepork, Ninox ...