Showing posts with label Ninox connivens. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

BARKING OWL

Photographed in Broome. Western Australia, June 2015
626         BARKING OWL              Ninox connivens

Australia        (469)

35-45 cm. Found in open forests, woodlands, dense scrubs, foothills, river red gums, other large trees near watercourses penetrating otherwise open country, paperbark woodlands. Rage: mainland Australia and some n. coastal islands; rare or absent from arid, treeless or heavily forested regions.