CHRISTMAS ISLAND BOOBOOK

Photographed on Christmas Island, December 2016

959                CHRISTMAS ISLAND BOOBOOK               Ninox natalis

AUSTRALIA (Christmas Island)           689

Also known as Christmas Island Hawk-owl, Christmas Hawk-owl, Christmas Boobook. Found in subtropical and tropical lowland forest; subtropical or tropical moist scrubland. 26-29 cm, female slightly larger than the male. Endemic to Christmas Island.

BROWN HAWK-OWL

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

903                  BROWN HAWK-OWL              Ninox scutulata

SINGAPORE               (47)

Common resident of primary and secondary forests, old plantations and occasionally secondary scrub. 30 cm. Distribution: much of Indian sub-continent, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas, east to Sulawesi.