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Tyto multipunctata (Lesser Sooty Owl)

Synonyms: Tyto tenebricosa multipunctata

Wikipedia Abstract

The lesser sooty owl (Tyto multipunctata) is a species of owl that lives in the wet tropics region of Australia. It is considered conspecific with the greater sooty owl, Tyto tenebricosa, by some authors, including BirdLife International. The birds are then together commonly referred to as sooty owls. Like other birds of prey, the female (37 centimetres or 15 inches) is bigger than the male (33 cm or 13 in). The lesser sooty owl is part of the masked group of owls: an important part of the environment because they are efficient predators that keep down rodent populations.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.272 lbs (577 g)
Female Weight [2]  1.23 lbs (558 g)
Male Weight [1]  431 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  67.7 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Fledging [1]  84 days
Incubation [3]  41 days
Mating Display [5]  Ground display
Mating System [5]  Monogamy
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [6]  43

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Brigalow tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Queensland tropical rain forests Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

Prey / Diet

Petaurus gracilis (mahogany glider)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ninox connivens (Barking Boobook)1
Ninox rufa (Rufous Boobook)1
Tyto novaehollandiae (Australian Masked Owl)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Higgins, PJ (Ed) (1999) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Volume 4: Parrots to dollarbird. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 6Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 7Petaurus gracilis (Diprotodontia: Petauridae), STEPHEN M. JACKSON, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(882):141–148 (2011)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0