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Owl, Southern Boobook

Ninox boobook


Occupies all treed environments, roosting beneath dense
vegetation or in tree hollows. Hunts along ecotones and in open areas at night
for small vertebrates and invertebrates. Sometimes hunts around lights near
human habitation.

The Australian Bird Guide, Peter Menkhorst et al

Classifications: Bird, forest and grassland
Family: Tytonidae
Information sources: Photo taken at Eungella by Barry Deacon

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