Ninox boobook

1 Southern Boobook at Black Range, NSW

Ninox boobook at Black Range, NSW - 26 Jul 2020
Ninox boobook at Black Range, NSW - 26 Jul 2020
Ninox boobook at Black Range, NSW - 26 Jul 2020
Ninox boobook at Black Range, NSW - 26 Jul 2020
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Ninox boobook 22 Aug 2021 Liam.m
Ninox novaeseelandiae 26 Jul 2020 AndrewMcCutcheon

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After hearing a Southern Boobook calling last night we were surprised to find one trapped inside our enclosed orchard. After taking these images at a distance I opened the door and the owl made good its escape to freedom.

8 comments

libbyh wrote:
   27 Jul 2020
Brilliant phots, congratulations - a lovely sighting
libbyh wrote:
   27 Jul 2020
I have added your image to our species guide, thanks
JackieMiles wrote:
   27 Jul 2020
Good idea Libby. You actually hadn't but I have now. You have to go into Admin these days to use define images - pain in the whatsit! These photos are particularly good for showing the paler yellow eye compared with a Barking Owl. Now if you could arrange to have one of those get trapped it would be excellent Andrew, as we still have no photos of them!
   27 Jul 2020
I have some images of Barking Owls Jackie, but unfortunately they are of the northern race 'peninsularis' taken in the Darwin Botanic Gardens. They certainly have those brilliant pale yellow eyes. I have not seen or heard Barking Owls in the southern parts of Australia.
JackieMiles wrote:
   27 Jul 2020
Best wait till we get a local photo I think. They do occur around here, but very sparsely. We have no ALCW records yet but the far south coast birdos have a few non-pictorial records, probably mostly based on call.
libbyh wrote:
   27 Jul 2020
Jackie, Andrew, It's a while since I added images to the species list, but I thought it would be simple. Spoke too soon! I have been asking for help, so thanks Jackie.
LocalFlowers wrote:
   25 Sep 2020
We are hearing a barking owl regularly at Mystery Bay, night time, alas no photos
PatriciaDaly wrote:
   6 Oct 2020
WildernessPhotographer, if you can manage an audio recording, you can put a 'sighting' up with that instead of a photo.

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Amenia imperialis (Yellow-headed blowfly) at Black Range, NSW - 22 Feb 2019 by AndrewMcCutcheon
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Acanthiza nana (Yellow Thornbill) at Black Range, NSW - 19 Nov 2017 by AndrewMcCutcheon
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Polistes (Polistella) humilis (Common Paper Wasp) at Black Range, NSW - 1 Jan 2017 by AndrewMcCutcheon
Argiope keyserlingi (St Andrew's Cross Spider) at Black Range, NSW - 28 Dec 2016 by AndrewMcCutcheon
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  • Ninox boobook Scientific name
  • Southern Boobook Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • -8.4m to 1711.1m Recorded at altitude
  • 156 images trained Machine learning
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  • Synonyms

    Ninox novaeseelandiae Ninox boobook

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