Rufous Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Strigidae

Genus

Ninox

eBird Code

rufowl2

Subspecies (4)

• Ninox rufa humeralis

  New Guinea, including Waigeo (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea) and Aru Islands (off southwestern New Guinea)

• Ninox rufa meesi

  northeastern Australia (Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland)

• Ninox rufa queenslandica

  northeastern Australia (northeastern Queensland from Wet Tropics region southward to Sarina)

• Ninox rufa rufa

  northwestern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, and northern Northern Territory)