Togian Boobook (Ninox burhani) | Photos and ID

NTNear ThreatenedEndemicInvertebrates

ForestMedium · 99 g

Togian Boobook (Ninox burhani), photo 2 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

When to see the Togian Boobook

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 4 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Togian Boobook

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Indonesia

About the Togian Boobook

The Togian boobook or Togian hawk-owl is an owl (Strigidae) described as new to science in 2004. The bird is currently known only from three islands in the Togian group, an archipelago in the Gulf of Tomini off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The new species was discovered on 25 December 1999.

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Easily confused with

New Ireland BoobookNinox variegataThe New Ireland boobook or New Ireland hawk owl also known as the Bismarck boobook, Bismarck hawk owl or barred boobook, is a small to medium-sized owl measuring 25 to 30 cm in length. Manus BoobookNinox meekiThe Manus boobook, Manus hawk owl, Admiralty hawk owl or Admiralty Islands hawk owl is a small owl. Sulu BoobookNinox reyiAmong the species complex, this owl is unique with its call of a series of clucks rather than the typical screeching of the other Philippine hawk-owls in the species complex.

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