Adulto © Richard Jackson eBird S50914682 Macaulay Library ML 130819201
Adulto © Hans Erken
Morfo claro adulto © Diane Peters
Adulto © Rohan Clarke
Adulto © Rick Franks
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Adulto © Tim Bawden

Australian masked-owl Tyto novaehollandiae

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Identificação

FORNECIDA POR MERLIN

Large owl with prominent facial disc and very powerful legs. Nests in a variety of habitats; requires hollows of very large trees for nest sites, and these may be in both drier and wetter forest types. Variable in size and color, ranging from larger, browner birds in Tasmania through to smaller, paler birds in northwestern Australia. This species is generally larger, darker, larger-legged, and more heavily spotted than Barn Owl. Call includes a loud explosive hiss.

FORNECIDA POR MERLIN