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Southern Boobook
S2, Full-frontal
Southern Boobook
S2, profile
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| Southern Boobook S2, Full-frontal | | Southern Boobook S2, profile | | ||
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-boobook.JPG "Southern Boobook (Ninox (Nixon) boobook ssp boobook)") | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||||||||||||||
| Order: | Owls (Strigiformes) | |||||||||||||||||
| Family: | True Owl (Strigidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||||
| Species: | Southern Boobook (Ninox (Nixon) boobook ssp boobook)| This Photo: | S1, profile | Synonyms: | Ninox boobook, Ninox boobook ssp boobook, Ninox novaeseelandiae or Ninox novaeseelandiae ssp boobook | Other names: | East Australian Boobook or Mopoke | Thank you Brenna Farrell for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Notice how S2 is greyer & doesn't have the yellow eye ring. This may be due to age, gender or just individual variation. Hopefully we'll find out soon and let you know. Thanks to Kalinya Pulsford for telling us aabout the common name of Mopoke; which comes from it's distinctive call. Nothing like the typical "Who Who" type call made by other owls. As can be seen by the binomial name, this is the nominate subspecies.
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