Australian Boobook (Ninox boobook)
About the Australian Boobook
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. Its name is derived from its two-tone boo-book call. Eight subspecies of the Australian boobook are recognized, with three further subspecies being reclassified as separate species in 2019 due to their distinctive calls and genetics.
A real field recording of the Australian Boobook. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Australia, Indonesia · xeno-canto lists 130 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Alor BoobookNinox plesseniprofile
- Andaman Hawk-OwlNinox affinisprofile
- Barking OwlNinox connivensprofile
- Brown Hawk-OwlNinox scutulatarecording
- Buru BoobookNinox hantuprofile
- Camiguin Hawk-OwlNinox leventisiprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.