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Buru Boobook
Ninox hantu (Wallace, 1863)
Strigidae — Owls
Buru Boobook, Ninox hantu, is an owl of the family Strigidae that breeds on Buru in the western Moluccas, within Australasia. It is a bird of subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The species is dark above and bright rufous below. Its forehead, cheeks and chin are lightly white, while the bill is horn-coloured white. The irises are yellow, the feet are white, and the tarsi and toes are covered in bristles. It was once treated as a subspecies of the Moluccan boobook.
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae — Owls
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Buru (wc Moluccas)
