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Alternative name: Pearly Owl
- Tyto delicatula
Identification
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.
Gill and Donsker also include the subspecies stertens, javanica and crassirostris and give the scientific name Tyto javanica for the enlarged species.
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- 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/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2017. IOC World Bird Names (version 7.1). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- 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
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Eastern Barn Owl. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 March 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Eastern_Barn_Owl