- 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 ofowl in theTytonidae family.It is found inAustralia ,Bangladesh ,China ,Fiji ,Hong Kong ,India ,Indonesia ,Japan ,Myanmar ,Nepal ,New Caledonia ,Papua New Guinea , thePhilippines ,Taiwan , andVietnam .This owl has long been considered
conspecific with theAfrican Grass-owl , "T. capensis", but recent taxonomy again splits them.Fact|date=August 2007References
* 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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