Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Brown Boobook / Brown Hawk-Owl

Tuesday 9 September 2014

Brown Boobook / Brown Hawk-Owl

Order - Strigiformes
Family - Strigidae (Typical Owls)

Brown Boobook / Brown Hawk-owl

Ninox scutulata

鹰鸮 (yīng-xiāo)

Malay : Pungguk Betemak Biasa

Japanese : アオバズク (ao-ba zuku)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 青葉木菟

Taxonomy update for 2013

Brown Boobook (Ninox scutulata) [still known by the AOU as Brown Hawk-Owl] is split into two species, with Hume’s Boobook being endemic to the Andaman archipelago :

- Brown Boobook (Ninox scutulata)
- Hume’s Boobook (Ninox obscura)

Size : 27-33 cm, 172–227 g (nominate race), 146–173 g (borneensis)

Subspecies and Distribution

Ninox scutulata lugubris (Tickell, 1833)– N & C India to W Assam.
Ninox scutulata hirsuta (Temminck, 1824)
– S India and Sri Lanka.
Ninox scutulata burmanica (A. O. Hume, 1876)
– E Assam to S China, S to N Malay Peninsula and Indochina.
Ninox scutulata isolata (E. C. S. Baker, 1926)
– Car Nicobar.
Ninox scutulata rexpimenti (Abdulali, 1979)
– Nicobar Is (Great Nicobar, Camorta, Trinkat).
Ninox scutulata palawanensis (Ripley & Rabor, 1962)
– Palawan (SW Philippines).
Ninox scutulata scutulata (Raffles, 1822)
– S Malay Peninsula, Riau Archipelago, Sumatra and Bangka.
Ninox scutulata javanensis (Stresemann, 1928)
– W Java.
Ninox scutulata borneensis (Bonaparte, 1850)
– Borneo and N Natuna Is.