Buru Boobook

Ninox hantu

An atypical-looking and distinctive smallish boobook, with its fairly unmarked bright cinnamon-brown plumage. Endemic to Buru, where it inhabits lowland and foothill forests. Song is a rather strange, frog- or insect-like series of hoarse, insistent-sounding croaking notes, often given in medium-length series. Formerly lumped with Seram Boobook under the name “Hantu Boobook.

Taxonomy

Scientific name
Ninox hantu
Authority
(Wallace, 1863)
Order
Strigiformes
Family
Strigidae
Genus
Ninox

Range and habitat

Migration
Resident species

Conservation

Population trend
declining

Photos

Distribution

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