Morepork Morepork The morepork ("Ninox novaeseelandiae"), also called the ruru or Tasmanian spotted owl, is a small brown owl found throughout New Zealand and Tasmania. Described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, it was for many years considered to be the same species as the southern boobook of mainland Australia until 1999. Its name is derived from its two-tone call. Four subspecies of the morepork are recognized, one of which is extinct and another that exists only as a hybrid population. The bird has almost 20 alternative common names, including mopoke and boobook — many of these names are onomatopoeic, as
Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. The Society publishes an academic journal, the "Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics". Until 1996, when it was combined with the "Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics", the Journal was called the "Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics". Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society The Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society is an Australian professional association. It describes itself as "independent association of persons and organisations interested in agricultural, resource and environmental economics". The Society, then called the Australian Agricultural Economics Society was founded at a conference convened in Sydney in February 1957,