Mindanao boobook

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Mindanao boobook

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Strigidae
Genus: Ninox
Species:
N. spilocephala
Binomial name
Ninox spilocephala
Tweeddale, 1879

The Mindanao boobook or Mindanao hawk-owl (Ninox spilocephala) is a species of

habitat loss
.

Description

EBird describes the bird as "A fairly small owl of lowland forest on Mindanao. Dark brown on the head and upperparts with speckles on the wing, a reddish-brown chest, a white belly with thick reddish-brown streaking, and yellowish eyes. Similar to chocolate boobook, but Mindanao is much smaller and lacks any white on the chest. Song is a short three-noted phrase 'boo-woo! boo!' with the first and second notes slurred."[4]

The Mindanao boobook is an earless species. The males and females look much alike.

Among the species complex, this owl is differentiated by its call which sounds closer to a dove than the typical screeching of the boobooks. It also has smaller size and mottled dark and light rufous brown streaking on its breast and whitish belly.[5]

It, along with the even smaller Luzon boobook, are among the smallest in the Philippine hawk-owl species complex, at 18 cm. This is smaller than the Mindoro boobook and Sulu boobook which are 20 cm tall. These species are dwarfed by the much larger Camiguin boobook, Romblon boobook and Cebu boobook at 25 cm tall.[5]

Habitat and conservation status

Its habitat is in tropical moist lowland

primary forest.[5]

The

habitat loss with wholesale clearance of forest habitats as a result of legal and illegal logging, mining
, conversion into farmlands and plantations and urbanization. Its entire range has suffered extensive lowland deforestation. In 1988, forest cover had been reduced to an estimated 29% on Mindanao, most of it above 1,000 m

There are no species specific conservation programs going on at the moment but conservation actions proposed include more species surveys to better understand habitat and population. initiate education and awareness campaigns to raise the species's profile and instill pride in locals. Lobby for protection of remaining forest.[6]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728252A94976596.en
    . Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ New Owl Species: Camiguin Hawk-Owl, Cebu Hawk-Owl Discovered In Philippines
  4. ^ "Mindanao Hawk-owl". Ebird.
  5. ^ a b c Allen, Desmond (2020). Birds of the Philippines. Barcelona: Lynx and Birdlife International Guides. pp. 172–177.
  6. ^ International), BirdLife International (BirdLife (2016-10-01). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Ninox spilocephala". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  • Kennedy, R.S., Gonzales P.C., Dickinson E.C., Miranda Jr, H.C., Fisher T.H. (2000) A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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