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Ninox scutulata (Brown Hawk-Owl)

Synonyms: Strix scutulata

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown hawk-owl (Ninox scutulata), also known as the brown boobook, is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to western Indonesia and south China. This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae. The brown hawk-owl is a resident breeder in most of tropical south Asia from the Middle East to south China. Its habitat is well-wooded country and forest. It lays three to five eggs in a tree hole. \n* \n*
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Infraspecies

Ninox scutulata borneensis (Bornean hawk owl)
Ninox scutulata burmanica (Oriental hawk owl)
Ninox scutulata hirsuta (Oriental hawk owl)
Ninox scutulata isolata
Ninox scutulata javanensis (Java hawk owl)
Ninox scutulata lugubris (Oriental hawk owl)
Ninox scutulata palawanensis (Palawan hawk owl)
Ninox scutulata rexpimenti
Ninox scutulata scutulata (Oriental hawk owl)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.7707
EDGE Score: 2.46562
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  195 grams
Female Weight [3]  186 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  30 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  30 %
Clutch Size [4]  3
Incubation [3]  24 days
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [5]  83
Snout to Vent Length [3]  12 inches (30 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Psilopogon viridis (White-cheeked Barbet)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Accipiter badius (Shikra)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Subulura taiwanensis <Unverified Name>[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Relationship between Body Mass and Body Length of Resident Bird Species of Taiwan, Pei-Fen Lee, Tzung-Su Ding and Hau-Jie Shiu, Acta Zoologica Taiwanica 9(2): 67-79 (1998)
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Buechley 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
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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