Eastern Barn Owl

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Alternative name: Pearly Owl

Photo by peterday
Bakara CP, South Australia, October 2010

Tyto delicatula

Distribution

From Lesser Sundas (Indonesia) to New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu.

Taxonomy

Dickinson and Gill and Donsker recognize five subspecies:

• T. d. sumbaensis on Sumba Island (Lesser Sundas)
• T. d. meeki in southeast New Guinea and adjacent islands
• T. d. delicatula from the eastern Lesser Sundas to Australia, Solomon Islands and Samoa
• T. d. interposita on Santa Cruz Islands and Banks Islands, Vanuatu

Clements includes this species in Barn Owl. The taxonomic situation of the Barn Owls is not yet fully solved.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
3. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0956861122

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Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Eastern Barn Owl. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Eastern_Barn_Owl

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