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Little Sumba Hawk-Owl (Ninox sumbaensis)

Little Sumba Hawk-Owl
Photo: iNaturalist user "porkytama" via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Little Sumba Hawk-Owl

The least boobook (Ninox sumbaensis), also known as the little Sumba hawk-owl or little Sumba boobook, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumba. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Source: Least boobook on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Little Sumba Hawk-Owl. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

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.

Song (0:09) via xeno-canto.org/1176911, licensed CC BY — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Indonesia · xeno-canto lists 23 recordings for this species in total.

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