Northern masked owl

Northern masked owl
At Groote Eylandt, off the coast of Australia's Northern Territory
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Strigiformes
Family: Tytonidae
Genus: Tyto
Species:
T. novaehollandiae
Subspecies:
T. n. kimberli
Trinomial name
Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli
(Mathews, 1912)[1]
Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli range[2]
Synonyms
  • T. n. galei Mathews, 1914
  • T. n. mackayi Mathews, 1912

The northern masked owl (Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli) is a large forest owl in the family Tytonidae. The northern kimberli subspecies was identified as a novel race of the Australian masked owl by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Macalister Mathews in his 1912 reference list of Australian birds.[1] The northern masked owl occurs in forest and woodland habitats in northern Australia, ranging from the northern Kimberley region to the northern mainland area of the Northern Territory and the western Gulf of Carpentaria.[2][3] While the Australian masked owl is recognized as the largest species in the family Tytonidae (barn owls), the northern masked owl is one of the smallest of the Australian masked owl subspecies.

  1. ^ a b Mathews, Gregory (1912). "A Reference-List of the Birds of Australia". Novitates Zoologicae. XVIII (3): 171-455. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.1694.
  2. ^ a b Tyto (Megastrix) novaehollandiae kimberli spatial data. Atlas of Living Australia (2020).
  3. ^ Barden, Paul; Jackett, Nigel; Garnett, Stephen (2021). Northern Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli. In Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020. (Eds ST Garnett, GB Baker). Melbourne: CSIRO.