| Brown boobook | |
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| N. s. burmanica at Phuket, Thailand, and call from South Bengal, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Strigiformes |
| Family: | Strigidae |
| Genus: | Ninox |
| Species: | N. scutulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Ninox scutulata (Raffles, 1822)
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The brown boobook (Ninox scutulata), also known as the brown hawk-owl, is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal east to western Indonesia and south China.
This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae.
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2021). "Ninox scutulata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22725643A200685229. Retrieved 1 March 2022.