Southern Boobook
Ninox novaeseelandiae
Summary 2
The morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae), also called the ruru or Tasmanian spotted owl, is a small brown owl found throughout New Zealand and Tasmania. Described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, it was for many years considered to be the same species (conspecific) as the southern boobook of mainland Australia until 1999. Its name is derived from its two-tone call. Four subspecies of the morepork are recognized, one of which has become extinct and another exists only...
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- (c) cskk, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/58792328@N00/4331645399
- (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninox_novaeseelandiae
