Introduction
The New Ireland Boobook is a small to medium-sized owls with no ear-tufts. It is also known as the New Ireland Hawk Owl, Bismarck Boobook, or Bismarck Hawk Owl.
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Information
Distribution: Endemic to New Hanover and New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago, east of New Guinea.
Range of the New Ireland Boobook Ninox variegata
Status: Widespread and common within its range. Listed as 'Least Concern' by Birdlife International.
Original Description: Quoy, Jean Rene Constant & Gaimard, Joseph Paul. 1830. Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par order du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de m.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. (Paris. 268 p). 1, p. 166-167. Atlas Ois. pl. 1, fig. 2.
