Family Typical Owls (Strigidae)
Endangered
Least Boobook (Ninox sumbaensis)
Taxonomy
French: Ninoxe mineure German: Graugesicht-Sumbakauz Spanish: Nínox de Sumba chico
Other common names:
Little Sumba Hawk-owl
Taxonomy:
Ninox sumbaensis
Olsen et al.
, 2002,near Km 45 west of Waingapu, Sumba, Lesser Sundas
.Distribution:
Sumba, in W Lesser Sundas.
Descriptive notes
c. 23 cm; 90 g (n = 1). Small Ninox with grey face, prominent white eyebrows and greyish crown with fine close barring; upperparts light... read more
Voice
Main call a single, low, flute-like hoot repeated c. every 3 seconds; fledged... read more
Habitat
Appears to be limited to remnant patches of primary forest, disturbed primary forest and secondary... read more
Food and feeding
No information. Given its small size, diet likely includes invertebrates.
Breeding
Recently fledged juvenile seen food-begging with two adults on 24 Dec. No other information.
Movements
Presumably sedentary.
Status and conservation
ENDANGERED. CITES II. Restricted-range species: present in Sumba EBA. Poorly known; recorded from only a handful of localities on Sumba. Its total range is 6100 km2. Presumed... read more
The existence of an undescribed small owl on Sumba has been known since the 1980s, based on both sightings and vocalizations (although species at one stage believed to belong in genus Otus#R), and DNA tests have now indicated that this owl differs from other hawk-owls of Indonesian region. Monotypic.