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Title
The first documented record of Northern Boobook Ninox japonica in Cambodia
Author(s)
Mahood, Simon P.
Published
2016
Publisher
Birding Asia
Abstract
On 11 March 2013 Sarah Brook informed me of a caged owl in the garden of the Fauna and Flora International office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; it had been brought in by a colleague, who had rescued it that morning after it collided with a window of his house in the city. I obtained images and the bird was released in my garden where, after perching low in bamboo (Plate 1), it soon flew up into a large tree and was lost to view; it was not seen again. No material was taken from the bird for genetic analysis. I quickly identified it as a Ninox species and, given the date and location, suspected that it might be a migrant. Using Round (2011) I identified the bird as a Northern Boobook Ninox japonica, based on the drop-shaped brown patterning of the underparts compared with the heart-shaped pattern of Brown Boobook N. scutulata (Plate 2).
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