Biology:Alor boobook

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Short description: Species of owl

Alor boobook
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Ninox
Species:
N. plesseni
Binomial name
Ninox plesseni
Stresemann, 1929

The Alor boobook (Ninox plesseni) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is native to Pantar and Alor Islands in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands.[2]

It was previously considered a subspecies of the Southern Bobook,[3] before being reclassified as its own species due to bioacoustic data in 2017.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q60793192 entry