Eastern Grass-owl

Eastern Grass-owl

Taxobox
name = Eastern Grass-owl


image_caption = Painting from John Gould's Birds of Asia
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Strigiformes
familia = Tytonidae
genus = "Tyto"
species = "T. longimembris"
binomial = "Tyto longimembris"
binomial_authority = (Jerdon, 1839)
synonyms = The Eastern Grass-owl ("Tyto longimembris"), or Australian Grass-owl is a species of owl in the Tytonidae family.It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

This owl has long been considered conspecific with the African Grass-owl, "T. capensis", but recent taxonomy again splits them.Fact|date=August 2007

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/48498/all Tyto longimembris] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.


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