Jungle Boobook

Jungle Boobook
Jungle Boobok
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Ninox
Species: N. theomacha
Binomial name
Ninox theomacha
(Bonaparte, 1855)

The Jungle Hawk Owl, Jungle Boobok or Papuan Boobok, Ninox theomacha, is a medium-sized, dark-colored owl. It has a dark gray-brown facial disk with lighter colored eyebrows, sooty or chocolate underparts, and mainly dark gray wings.

It lives mainly in lowland forests, montane forests, and submontane forests, living mainly on the forests' edges. It is a resident of New Guinea and Papua New Guinea.

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