Brown Hawk Owl - Ninox scutulata

Also known as Oriental Hawk Owl

Pre-Call 'Cooing'	Chitwan, Nepal	© Dave Farrow
Typical Call	Southern Primorski Krai in the Russian Far East	© Bruce Marcot

Status: Northern populations fairly common, southern populations more at risk.

Original Description: Raffles, T. Stamford. 1822. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (Trans. Linn. Soc. London) (1) 13: p 280.

Subspecies: N. s. scutulata, N. s. borneensis, N. s. burmanica, N. s. florensis, N. s. hirsuta, N. s. japonica, N. s. javanensis, N. s. lugubris, N. s. obscura, N. s. palawanensis, N. s. randi, N. s. totogo

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OwlPages.com Owl Species ID: 240.080.000 - Page last updated 2005-04-28