Typical Owls
Order: Strigiformes. Family: Strigidae
Typical owls are small to large solitary nocturnal birds of prey. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawk-like beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disk. There are 195 species worldwide and 7 species which occur in Papua New Guinea.
- Rufous Owl Ninox rufa
- Barking Owl Ninox connivens
- Jungle Hawk Owl Ninox theomacha
- Manus Hawk Owl Ninox meeki (E)
- Bismarck Hawk Owl Ninox variegata (E)
- New Britain Hawk Owl Ninox odiosa (E)
- Papuan Hawk Owl Uroglaux dimorpha
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Papua New Guinea
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