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Photos and videos of wild birds found in the Philippines. We travel all over the Philippines to document and take pictures of birds. Our goal is to make this site a resource of information and images about wild birds of the Philippines.

  1. Birds of the Philippines
  2. Owls

Northern Boobook

NORTHERN BOOBOOK
Ninox japonica
Family Strigidae

Bird # 272 - November 2010

This was our second lifer in front of Romy Ocon's house! The first one was the Ferruginous Flycatcher just a few weeks previous to this.

This is an uncommon bird that is usually found in the forest, forest edge, open scrub, and early second growth. This individual was in a residential subdivision in BF, Parañaque. There is also another individual that frequents the UP Diliman campus hunting for bats in the late afternoon. We went there several times to try to see it, but had no luck. And then this one turns up just a few minutes drive from our house! We photographed this bird in the morning. It was resting in the tree.

There are resident and migrant populations of Brown Hawk-Owls in the Philippines.

This was split from Ninox scutulata in the WBCP 2013 Checklist based on IOC. Subspecies florensis and japonica are non-breeding visitors, totogo is resident in the Babuyan Islands

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NORTHERN BOOBOOK
<i>Ninox japonica</i>
BF Homes, Parañaque, Philippines
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NORTHERN BOOBOOK Ninox japonica BF Homes, Parañaque, Philippines

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  • NORTHERN BOOBOOK
<i>Ninox japonica</i>
BF Homes, Parañaque, Philippines
  • NORTHERN BOOBOOK
<i>Ninox japonica</i>
BF Homes, Parañaque, Philippines
  • NORTHERN BOOBOOK
<i>Ninox japonica</i>
BF Homes, Parañaque, Philippines
  • NORTHERN BOOBOOK
<i>Ninox japonica</i>
BF Homes, Parañaque, Philippines
  • NORTHERN BOOBOOK
<i>Ninox japonica</i>
BF Homes, Parañaque, Philippines
  • This could be Northern Boobook or Brown Hawk-Owl, depending on the call. We're waiting to show the video with the owl calling to the experts for ID.

BROWN HAWK-OWL
<i>Ninox scutulata</i>
Valencia, Dumaguete, Philippines
  • This could be Northern Boobook or Brown Hawk-Owl, depending on the call. We're waiting to show the video with the owl calling to the experts for ID.


BROWN HAWK-OWL
<i>Ninox scutulata</i>
Valencia, Dumaguete, Philippines
  • This could be Northern Boobook or Brown Hawk-Owl, depending on the call. We're waiting to show the video with the owl calling to the experts for ID.


BROWN HAWK-OWL
<i>Ninox scutulata</i>
Valencia, Dumaguete, Philippines
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