Alor Boobook (Ninox plesseni)
About the Alor Boobook
The Alor boobook (Ninox plesseni) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is native to Pantar and Alor Islands in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands. It was previously considered a subspecies of the Australian boobook, before being reclassified as its own species due to bioacoustic data in 2017.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 18 recordings for this species: 16 CC BY-NC-SA · 2 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Indonesia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Australian BoobookNinox boobookrecording
- Brown Hawk-OwlNinox scutulatarecording
- Little Sumba Hawk-OwlNinox sumbaensisrecording
- MoreporkNinox novaeseelandiaerecording
- Rote BoobookNinox rotiensisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.