So many splits - Tassie Masked Owl is also proposed - hopefully one will
also come to Hamilton!
On 30 June 2013 14:56, jenny spry <> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> After I got home I started doing a bit of research. On the IOC website the
> current check list (v3.3) shows the Morepork to be a separate species
> (Ninox novaeseelandiae leucopsis), split from the Southern Boobook. On the
> Proposed Splits/lumps page it shows that they are now looking at splits
> from the Boobook (Ninox boobook). They are proposing to have Southern
> Boobook (*Ninox boobook*); Spotted Boobook (*Ninox leucopsis*) and Red
> Boobook (*Ninox lurida*). It is all a bit confusing to me and I will be
> interested to see the outcome if the splits are accepted. I then went back
> to my 1958 edition of *What Bird is That? *and it appears that if the
> splits are accepted we will be reverting to the situation as it was then
> and earlier with Boobook, Spotted Boobook and Red Boobook.
>
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