[order] STRIGIFORMES | [family] Strigidae | [latin] Ninox theomacha | [authority] Bonaparte, 1855 | [UK] Jungle Hawk-Owl | [FR] Ninox brune | [DE] Einfarb-Kauz | [ES] Ninox Papu | [NL] Bruine Valkuil
Subspecies
Monotypic species
Genus
Members of the genus Ninox are hawk owls, ranging from small to large, with rounded heads without ear-tufts. They have long, pointed wings and a long tail. The nostrils are forward facing on an enlarged cere in an indistinct facial disk. There are at least 20 species in this genus, from Siberia through much of the Pacific rim, South-east Asia and Australasia.
Physical charateristics
It is a medium-sized, dark-colored owl. It has a dark gray-brown facial disk with lighter colored eyebrows, sooty or chocolate underparts, and mainly dark gray wings.
Listen to the sound of Jungle Hawk-Owl
[audio:http://www.planetofbirds.com/MASTER/STRIGIFORMES/Strigidae/sounds/Jungle Hawk-Owl.mp3]
Copyright remark: Most sounds derived from xeno-canto
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Range
Australasia : New Guinea
Habitat
It lives mainly in lowland forests, montane forests, and submontane forests, living mainly on the forests’ edges
Reproduction
Monogamous species, clutch size is 2 eggs. Nests in tree cavity or old Woodpecker nest.
Feeding habits
Hunts mainly for large insects, also small vertebrates. Hunts from a perch to sally or hawking in air for prey.
Video Jungle Hawk-Owl
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8nx6p5nH04
copyright: Keith Blomerley
Conservation
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Migration
Presumed resident
Distribution map
