Mindanao Boobook

Identificazione

EBird describes the bird as "A fairly small owl of lowland forest on Mindanao. Dark brown on the head and upperparts with speckles on the wing, a reddish-brown chest, a white belly with thick reddish-brown streaking, and yellowish eyes. Similar to chocolate boobook, but Mindanao is much smaller and lacks any white on the chest. Song is a short three-noted phrase 'boo-woo! boo!' with the first and second notes slurred."<p>The Mindanao boobook is an earless species. The males and females look much alike.<p>Among the species complex, this owl is differentiated by its call which sounds closer to a dove than the typical screeching of the boobooks. It also has smaller size and mottled dark and light rufous brown streaking on its breast and whitish belly.<p>It, along with the even smaller Luzon boobook, are among the smallest in the Philippine hawk-owl species complex, at 18 cm. This is smaller than the Mindoro boobook and Sulu boobook which are 20 cm tall. These species are dwarfed by the much larger Camiguin boobook, Romblon boobook and Cebu boobook at 25 cm tall.

Tassonomia

Genere: Ninox; famiglia: Strigidae; ordine: Strigiformes.

Nome scientifico

Ninox spilocephala

Autorità

Tweeddale, 1879

Ordine

Strigiformi

Famiglia

Strigidae

Genere

Ninox

Areale e habitat

Its habitat is in tropical moist lowland primary forest.<p>The IUCN Red List classifies this bird as near-threatened with population believed to be declining. This species' main threat is habitat loss with wholesale clearance of forest habitats as a result of legal and illegal logging, mining, conversion into farmlands and plantations and urbanization. Its entire range has suffered extensive lowland deforestation. In 1988, forest cover had been reduced to an estimated 29% on Mindanao, most of it above 1,000 m<p>There are no species specific conservation programs going on at the moment but conservation actions proposed include more species surveys to better understand habitat and population. initiate education and awareness campaigns to raise the species's profile and instill pride in locals. Lobby for protection of remaining forest.

Migrazione

Specie stanziale

Comportamento

Comportamento migratorio: Specie stanziale.

Conservazione

Tendenza della popolazione: in diminuzione.

Tendenza della popolazione

in diminuzione