Australasian Masked Owl

Taxonomy

Order

Strigiformes

Family

Tytonidae

Genus

Tyto

Vocalizations

Subspecies (10)

• Tyto novaehollandiae almae

  southern Moluccas (Seram)

• Tyto novaehollandiae calabyi

  Trans-Fly lowlands of south-central New Guinea, and Daru Island

• Tyto novaehollandiae castanops

  Tasmania, and Maria and Maatsuyker islands

• Tyto novaehollandiae cayelii

  southern Moluccas (Buru)

• Tyto novaehollandiae galei

  northeastern Australia (northeastern Cape York Peninsula, Wet Tropics region, northern Queensland)

• Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli

  northwestern Australia (Yampi Peninsula to northern Northern Territory), and Groote Eylandt (off Northern Territory)

• Tyto novaehollandiae manusi

  Manus (Admiralty Islands)

• Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis

  insular northern Australia (Melville Island and Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, off Northern Territory)

• Tyto novaehollandiae novaehollandiae

  southwestern Western Australia and southeastern Australia (central Queensland to eastern Victoria)

• Tyto novaehollandiae sororcula

  Tanimbar Islands (Yamdena and Larat)