In his 1964 review of Australian owls, Mees treated Australian and New Zealand boobooks, along with several taxa from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as one species- Ninox novaeseelandiae-with 16 subspecies. ĭutch naturalist Gerlof Mees and German evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr regarded the taxonomy of the boobook owl complex as extremely challenging, the latter remarking in 1943 that it was "one of the most difficult problems I have ever encountered". In the Yuwaaliyaay dialect of the Gamilaraay language of southeastern Australia, the Australian boobook is guurrguurr.
The Ngarluma people of the western Pilbara knew it as gurrgumarlu. Alternative common names include spotted owl and brown owl. He added, "The settlers in New South Wales are led away by the idea that everything is the reverse in that country to what it is in England and the Cuckoo, as they call this bird, singing by night, is one of the instances they point out." Gould recorded local aboriginal names: Goor-goor-da (Western Australia), Mel-in-de-ye (Port Essington), and Koor-koo (South Australia). William Dawes recorded the name bōkbōk "an owl" in 1790 or 1791, in his transcription of the Dharug language, and English explorer George Caley had recorded the native name as buck-buck during the earliest days of the colony, reporting that early settlers had called it cuckoo owl as its call was reminiscent of the common cuckoo. The common name comes from the two-tone call of the bird, and has also been transcribed as "mopoke". Īustralian boobook has been designated the official name by the International Ornithological Committee, changed from "southern boobook" in 2019 with the separation of some Indonesian subspecies. Meanwhile, in India, English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson had established the genus Ninox in 1837, and his countryman Edward Blyth placed the Australian boobook in the new genus in 1849. maculatus from southeastern Australia and Tasmania. boobook, which is widespread across the Australian mainland and Tasmania, and S. In his 1865 Handbook to the Birds of Australia, Gould recognised three species, all of which he placed in the genus Spiloglaux: S. German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup classified the two taxa into subgenus Spiloglaux of a new genus Ieraglaux in 1852, renaming S. John Gould described Athene marmorata in 1846 from a specimen in South Australia. The species description was based on a painting by Thomas Watling of a bird-the holotype-in the Sydney district in the 1790s. 1790 painting by Thomas Watling on which Latham's description is basedĮnglish ornithologist John Latham described the boobook owl as Strix boobook in 1801, writing about it in English, before giving it its scientific name, taking its species epithet from a local Dharug word for the bird. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the Australian boobook as being of least concern on account of its large range and apparently stable population. Breeding takes place from late winter to early summer, using tree hollows as nesting sites. The Australian boobook feeds on insects and small vertebrates, hunting by pouncing on them from tree perches. It is generally nocturnal, though sometimes it is active at dawn and dusk, retiring to roost in secluded spots in the foliage of trees. The smallest owl on the Australian mainland, the Australian boobook is 27 to 36 cm (10.5 to 14 in) long, with predominantly dark-brown plumage with prominent pale spots. Eight subspecies of the Australian boobook are recognized, with three further subspecies being reclassified as separate species in 2019 due to their distinctive calls and genetics.
Its name is derived from its two-tone boo-book call. Described by John Latham in 1801, it was generally considered to be the same species as the morepork of New Zealand until 1999. The Australian boobook ( Ninox boobook), which is known in some regions as the mopoke, is a species of owl native to mainland Australia, southern New Guinea, the island of Timor, and the Sunda Islands. Spiloglaux boobook parocellata Mathews, 1946.Spiloglaux novaeseelandiae everardi Mathews, 1913.Spiloglaux boobook tregellasi Mathews, 1913.Ninox boobook macgillivrayi Mathews, 1912.Ninox boobook melvillensis Mathews, 1912.Ieraglaux ( Spiloglaux) bubuk Kaup, 1852.
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