MOREPORK

Photographed at Gisbourne, New Zealand, June 2017

(*   197)                       MOREPORK                Ninox novaeseelandiae 

NEW ZEALAND              69

Also known as Southern Boobook in Australia. Found in forest, scrub, lightly forested open areas, parks and gardens. 29 cm. Abundant native all over New Zealand.

SOUTHERN BOOBOOK

197          SOUTHERN BOOBOOK            Ninox novaeseelandiae

Australia    (197)

Also known as Mopoke or Morepork. 25-36 cm, female larger. Range over most of Australia except drier central west of WA. Found rain forests to mallees, dense mulga, margins of treeless plains, parks  and gardens.