Solomons boobook Solomons boobook The Solomons boobook ("Ninox jacquinoti"), also known as the Solomons hawk-owl, is a small to medium-sized hawk owl, measuring in length. Its upperparts are rusty brown, sometimes spotted or barred with white, its chest is buffy white, sometimes spotted or barred with brown, and its creamy belly is unmarked. It has a grayish-brown facial disc, edged by narrow white eyebrows and a band of white across the throat. When he first described the species in 1850, Charles Lucien Bonaparte assigned it to the genus "Athene". The specific epithet honors Charles Hector Jacquinot, a French explorer who spent considerable
Southern boobook mask. The Tasmanian boobook has been recorded from southern Victoria, with one record from New South Wales. It has darker and more reddish upperparts with brighter white dots, with more prominent white dots and a yellow-brown tinge to the underparts. It has pinkish grey feet and golden eyes. The southern boobook is found across Australia, although is scarce in more arid regions such as western New South Wales, southwestern and western Queensland, much of South Australia away from the coast and interior Western Australia and Northern Territory. In drier areas it is generally found along watercourses such as the Darling