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    • The brown boobook (Ninox scutulata), also known as the brown hawk-owl, is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal east to western Indonesia and south China. This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other groupin… See more

    Taxonomy

    The brown boobook was formally described in 1822 by Stamford Raffles from a specimen collected in Sumatra under the
    Nine … See more

    Description

    The brown boobook is a medium-sized owl with a length of 32 cm (13 in). It has a hawk-like shape due to its long tail and lack of a distinct facial disk. The upperparts are dark brown, with a barred tail. The underparts are whitish … See more

    Distribution and habitat

    The brown boobook is a resident breeder in most of tropical south Asia from the Middle East to south China. Its habitat is well-wooded country and forest. It lays three to five eggs in a tree hole.
    There are t… See more

    Gallery

    • Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden
    • Brown boobook at Samsing in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India.
    • Brown boobook couple, Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, Kerala, India … See more

    Further reading

    • Grimmett, Richard; Carol Inskipp; Tim Inskipp (1999). Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04910-6. See more

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