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Photo by Steve Williams
Old Noarlunga, South Australia, June 2005
Ninox connivens

Identification

40cm

  • Brown plumage
  • White spots on wings
  • Streaked chest
  • Underparts brownish-grey spotted white
  • Lighter tail and flight feathers
  • Large yellow eyes
  • Dark brown beak .

Distribution

Australia and parts of Papua New Guinea.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:

Juvenile
Photo by tcollins
Darwin, Northern Territory, October 2012
  • N. c. rufostrigata:
  • Northern Moluccas (Halmahera, Morotai, Bacan and Obi)
  • N. c. remigialis: Kai Besar
  • N. c. assimilis:
  • Eastern New Guinea, Manam Island and Karkar Island
  • N. c. peninsularis (occidentalis):
  • Coastal northern Australia and islands in Torres Strait
  • N. c. connivens:

Habitat

Lightly timbered open and savannah woodlands, well-forested hill and riverine woodlands.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes many types of birds, small possums, bats and rodents, beetles and crickets.

Breeding

The nest is a large hollow high in a tree. The female incubates the 2-3 white, dull, almost spherical eggs for 36 days.

Vocalisation

It sounds like a dog barking or growling, wuf wuf or wuk wuk, or can make a high pitched sound like a female screaming in pain.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  3. The Owl Pages
  4. Wikipedia

Recommended Citation

External Links

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