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Kay's Gallery: Southern Boobook (4/5)
STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae
Ninox novaeseelandiae
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© Kay Parkin 2012
Owen, SA (Dec, 2012)
"Like other owls, the Boobook, Ninox novaeseelandiae, has silent flight and acute directional hearing so that it can hunt in almost total darkness."
*Morcombe, Michael (1971). Birds of Australia. Lansdowne Press Pty Ltd, p.44.
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