Christmas Boobook
Photo · Charles William Andrews (1866-1924) (Author) John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) (Illustrator)

BirdUp · Species

Christmas Boobook

Ninox natalisLister, 1889

EndangeredEndemic
Order
STRIGIFORMES
Family
Strigidae
Genus
Ninox
Conservation
Endangered
Commonness
Rare
Best seen
Summer

01 · Identification

How to tell it apart

The Christmas boobook, also known as the Christmas hawk owl, Christmas Island boobook or Christmas Island hawk owl, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.

Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

02 · Where

Where to find it

Breeding range
Christmas I. (south of west Java)

03 · When

When to look

Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.

  1. Jan
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  12. Dec

05 · Behaviour

Habits and haunts

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