Don't forget 'Red Boobook' in FNQ, split in the latest owls of the world as N.
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Rob Morris
Brisbane, Australia
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:09:23 +1100
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Boobooks in Australia
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> G'day all
>
> I'm trying to get my head around the Boobook situation in Australia.
>
> Is the Tasmanian taxa *leucopsis* now lumped with *novaeseelandiae* as *Ninox
> novaeseelandiae* the Morepork? That is what the IOC states.
>
> Is it also true that some of the Tasmanian birds venture across Bass Strait
> to the mainland in winter?
>
> If these points are both true then we have two species in Australia and
> possibly both occur in Victoria (and NSW?).
>
> Can anyone point me to the recent literature around this? I have HANZAB
> but the relevant section was written about 15 years ago.
>
> Finally - the plumages of *leucopsis* and *boobook* differ but do their
> calls?
>
> Cheers
> Steve
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