Distribution map of southern boobook (<i>Ninox boobook</i>) and its subspecies. file <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oceania_continents.svg" title="File:Oceania continents.svg">Oceania continents.svg</a> is basis for the base map. Ranges of subspecies takne from <cite style="font-style:normal">Gwee, Chyi Yin (2017). "Bioacoustic and multi-locus DNA data of <i>Ninox</i> owls support high incidence of extinction and recolonisation on small, low-lying islands across Wallacea". <i>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution</i> <b>109</b>: 246–58. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.024">10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.024</a>.</cite><br> Legend - <i>N.b.boobook</i> - pale green, <i>N.b.ocellata</i> - cream, <i>N.b.halmaturina</i> - orange, <i>N.b.lurida</i> - red, <i>N.b.fusca</i> - brown, <i>N.b.pusilla</i> - purple, <i>N.b. plesseni</i> - royal blue, <i>N.b.rotiensis</i> - black, <i>N.b.moae</i> - dark brown, <i>N.b.cinnamomina</i> - dark green.
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