Biology:Timor boobook

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Timor 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. fusca
Binomial name
Ninox fusca
(Vieillot, 1817)

The Timor boobook (Ninox fusca) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found on Timor, Roma, Leti and Semau Islands in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.[2][3]

It has a more grey-brown plumage with no red tinge, unlike other subspecies. It has grey streaks on its belly and white spots on its secondaries, inner wing-coverts and nape.[2] It was described by French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1817 as Strix fusca.[4] Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr noted that it closely resembled the Australian boobook and concluded it was probably a subspecies of the latter,[5] and Mayr classified it as a subspecies in 1943.[6] Genetic and call analysis show it to be markedly divergent to the Australian populations of the Australian boobook, leading Gwee and colleagues to suggest it be reclassified as a separate species.[7] Its calls are shorter and more frequent than the Australian boobook.[8] It was reclassified as a distinct species in 2019.

References

  1. "Appendices | CITES". https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 König, Claus; Weick, Friedhelm; Becking, Jan-Hendrik (2009). Owls of the World. Helm Identification Guides. A&C Black. pp. 457–59. ISBN 978-1-4081-0884-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=Rnz1c8olgWcC&pg=PA459. 
  3. Johnstone, R. E.; Darnell, J. C. (1997). "Description of a new subspecies of boobook owl Ninox novaeseelandiae (Gmelin) from Roti Island, Indonesia". Western Australian Naturalist 21: 161–74. http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Ninox/Ninox%20boobook%20rotiensis%20(Johnstone%20&%20Darnell)%201997,%20Western%20Australian%20Naturalist,%2021,%20pages%20161-.PDF. 
  4. Veillot, Louis Pierre (1817) (in French). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc.. 7. Paris: Chez Deterville. p. 22. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18035768. 
  5. Hellmayr, Carl Eduard; Haniel, C.B. (1914) (in German). Die Avifauna von Timor. Stuttgart: Im Kommissionsverlag der E. Schweizerbartschen Verlags Buchhandlung. p. 102. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33606516. 
  6. Mayr, Ernst (1943). "Notes on Australian Birds (II)". Emu 43 (1): 3–17. doi:10.1071/MU943003. http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Ninox/Ninox%20boobook%20moae%20(Mayr)%201943,%20Emu,%2043,%20pages%2013-14..PDF. 
  7. Gwee, Chyi Yin; Christidis, Leslie; Eaton, James A.; Norman, Janette A.; Trainor, Colin R.; Verbelen, Phillippe; Rheindt, Frank E. (2017). "Bioacoustic and multi-locus DNA data of Ninox owls support high incidence of extinction and recolonisation on small, low-lying islands across Wallacea". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109: 246–58. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.024. PMID 28017857. 
  8. Olsen, Jerry; Debus, Stephen (2010). "Is the Timor southern boobook a separate species?". Boobook 28 (1): 10. http://www.globalraptors.org/grin/researchers/uploads/491/timor_southern_boobook.pdf. 

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