Species profile—Ninox boobook (southern boobook)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Strigidae (hawk-owls) → Ninox boobook (southern boobook)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Strigidae (hawk-owls)
- Scientific name
- Ninox boobook (Latham, 1802)
- Common name
- southern boobook
- Type reference
- Strix boobook Latham, J. 1802. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1102
- Synonym(s)
- Ninox novaeseelandiae
Ninox novaeseelandiae boobook
Ninox boobook lurida
Ninox novaeseelandiae lurida
Ninox lurida - Alternate name(s)
- mopoke
Australian boobook
spotted owl
gurgurda
morepork - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
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Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1102.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
