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Captive Bird.
This Southern Boobook was so full of character. It is the smallest and most common owl in Australia. It is identified by its plumage, which is dark chocolate-brown above and rufous-brown below, heavily streaked and spotted with white.
Captive Bird.
This Southern Boobook was so full of character. It is the smallest and most common owl in Australia. It is identified by its plumage, which is dark chocolate-brown above and rufous-brown below, heavily streaked and spotted with white.
Yay. I am posting a new photo (not from my archives).
I went for a lovely walk at Woodlands with Andrew H and as we were stalking a Kookaburra, we flushed a pair of Southern Boobook Owls out of a large Eucalyptus tree.
It is very rare that I ever see owls so it is always causes lots of excitement. They were up really high so not particularly easy to get a great shot. Still, I am happy to put his up as a special sighting for me.
These are our smallest owl. They are called "Boobooks" as a typical call consist of a double note 'boo-book'
This gorgeous Boobook was quite difficult to capture as it was very high up in a Jacaranda tree, there were a pair of them, but it's mate was well hidden. I felt thrilled to see them, let alone get a shot of one.
I'm going to be off Flickr for a while...thank you so much for all your kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.
Second photo of the owl posted yesterday. Once the shutter went off the second time it decided we should part company.
Southern boobook owl. Ninox boobook
The maximum age recorded from banding has been 15 years 11 months, in a bird caught and later caught again on Black Mountain in the Australian Capital Territory.
Across Australia, breeding takes place anywhere from July to February, though peaks in October, and is generally earlier in more northern areas.
The southern boobook nests in holes in trees between one and twenty metres above the ground. The holes are generally vertical, and mostly in eucalypts, though other trees such as coast banksia are also used.
Some sites are reused by the species for up to 20 years, especially if broods have been successfully raised in them before. Boobooks may also evict other birds such as galahs to use their hollows, and have used sites abandoned by babblers, crows and ravens. The male does more of the site preparation, such as lining the base of the hollow with leaves.
A Young Southern Boobook Owl watching m very closely. Tondoon Botanic Gardens, Gladstone, Queensland.
I was thrilled to see this Southern Boobook Owl at our regular bird haunt in Woodlands Historic Park yesterday. Only the second time I have seen one. Just popped in to try to find the red-capped robins and found this guy instead. It was up very high and didn't allow us to get too close. The wind was blowing, making that branch into a see-saw so I was lucky to get anything remotely sharp!
Suffolk Owl Sanctuary has many breads of owls and other predator birds. they also put on live shows.
Found this guy at a free camp 80 km East of Norseman on Nullarbor plain, WA.
This owl is native to mainland Australia, southern New Guinea, Timor and the Sunda Islands. It was considered to be the same species (conspecific) as the morepork of New Zealand until 2013.
Ninox is a genus of true owls comprising about 30 species found in Asia and Australasia. Many species are known as hawk owls or boobooks. Molecular analysis indicates the genus is an early offshoot from the ancestors of the rest of the true owls.
The true owls or typical owls (family Strigidae) are one of the two generally accepted families of owls, the other being the barn owls (Tytonidae). (Wikipedia).
One of these stunning birds has taken to roosting during the day in the trees in the grounds of our apartment complex. I doubt that I would have ever seen it had it not been for the effect that it has on the other birds in the area. They have been upset by the presence of the owl, and have aggressively swooped it and made loud calls. I suspect that they are afraid of this predator, and would like it to move on!
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Links for background information ...
www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Ninox-novaeseelandiae
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_boobook
canberrabirds.org.au/birds/southern-boobook/
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[ Location - Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia ]
Photography notes ...
The photograph was taken using the following hardware configuration ...
(Year of manufacture indicated in braces where known.)
- Hasselblad X1D-50c Medium Format Mirrorless Digital Camera (Silver) - MFR # H-3013900 (2017).
- Hasselblad X1D GPS Module - MFR # H-3054772.
- FotodioX Hasselblad V-Mount to XCD-Mount Camera Lens Adapter - MFR # HB-XCD-PRO.
- Hasselblad Carl Zeiss lens - Sonnar CF 250mm f/5.6 Superachromat lens (1987).
- FotodioX B60 Lens Hood for Select Hasselblad Telephoto CF Lenses.
I acquired the photograph (8272 x 6200 pixels) with an ISO of 400, and aperture of f/5.6 and an exposure time of 1/125 seconds.
Post-processing ...
Finder - Removed the UHS-I SDXC card from the camera and placed it in a Lexar 25-in-1 USB card reader. Then used Finder on my MacBook Air to download the raw image file (3FR extension) from the card.
Lightroom - Imported the 3FR image. Applied a standard metadata preset (20161110 Import 001) during the import process.
Lightroom - Made various lighting and color adjustments to the image.
Lightroom - Applied a square crop to the image (i.e., a 1:1 aspect ratio) (2867 x 2867 pixels).
Lightroom - Saved the Develop module settings as a preset.
Lightroom - Output the image as a JPEG image using the “Maximum” quality option (2867 x 2867 pixels).
PhotoSync - Copied the JPEG file to my iPad Mini for any final processing, review, enjoyment, and posting to social media.
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Second photo of the owl posted yesterday. Once the shutter went off the second time it decided we should part company.
Southern boobook owl. Ninox boobook
The maximum age recorded from banding has been 15 years 11 months, in a bird caught and later caught again on Black Mountain in the Australian Capital Territory.
Across Australia, breeding takes place anywhere from July to February, though peaks in October, and is generally earlier in more northern areas.
The southern boobook nests in holes in trees between one and twenty metres above the ground. The holes are generally vertical, and mostly in eucalypts, though other trees such as coast banksia are also used.
Some sites are reused by the species for up to 20 years, especially if broods have been successfully raised in them before. Boobooks may also evict other birds such as galahs to use their hollows, and have used sites abandoned by babblers, crows and ravens. The male does more of the site preparation, such as lining the base of the hollow with leaves.
This was a bit of a crazy experience. My friend and I had just popped into Cainbable Mountain Lodge, owned by a friend of ours, on the way into O'Reilly's. We were walking under a couple of low pines, looking for some of the Pretty-Face Wallabies that are prolific there, when two owls swooped from the pine we were under, literally dropping to a metre in front of us, before flying out and away. One few down through the trees, but this guy (who we assume was the young of the other) just flew over to another small pine a few metres away. We spent a solid fifteen minutes on the ground peering up and getting, eventually, this shot.
A close encounter with a Boobook, Ninox boobook, Woodlands HP, Greenvale.
I went looking for this very species but hadn't counted on getting this close so went with the 1.7x tele attached. This is full frame so the 300mm straight would have been perfect.
Ninox novaeseelandiae
Common name: Southern Boobook Owl - also called the Mopoke or Morepork
This guy just showed up and sat in the bottlebrush nest the the veranda for the day.
At twilight the parent leaves the nest to be relieved by its mate(note the left eye injury),
Hastings.
Southern Boobook Owl photographed at Cairns Tropical Zoo with a Canon 7D camera + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Lens.
If you're ever in Cairns make sure you check out this zoo. It's great for photography: www.funtours.com.au/cairns/cairnstropicalzoo.shtml
Metadata:
Exposure:1/125
Aperture:f/8 (my usual setting for this lens and zoo's)
Focal Length:100 mm (we were quite close to the owl)
ISO Speed:160
Ninox novaeseelandiae
Common name: Southern Boobook Owl - also called the Mopoke or Morepork
This guy just showed up and sat in the bottlebrush nest the the veranda for the day.
I am not really set up for night shots as it is something i don't get the chance to do very often. The built in flash on the camera is a bit pointless, without a diffuser i am yet to like the end result.
In the mean time i was given a tip about using a torch with an adjustable beam to give light that can be controlled. It works if time is not a issue but chasing something on the move is a bit of a challenge without having a few extra hands.
If anyone has any tips on good set ups for night time photography i would be keen to here them.
Please Share. :)
Southern boobook owl. Ninox boobook
The maximum age recorded from banding has been 15 years 11 months, in a bird caught and later caught again on Black Mountain in the Australian Capital Territory.
Across Australia, breeding takes place anywhere from July to February, though peaks in October, and is generally earlier in more northern areas.
The southern boobook nests in holes in trees between one and twenty metres above the ground. The holes are generally vertical, and mostly in eucalypts, though other trees such as coast banksia are also used.
Some sites are reused by the species for up to 20 years, especially if broods have been successfully raised in them before. Boobooks may also evict other birds such as galahs to use their hollows, and have used sites abandoned by babblers, crows and ravens. The male does more of the site preparation, such as lining the base of the hollow with leaves.
Ninox novaeseelandiae
Common name: Southern Boobook Owl - also called the Mopoke or Morepork
This guy just showed up and sat in the bottlebrush nest the the veranda for the day.
Ninox novaeseelandiae
Common name: Southern Boobook Owl - also called the Mopoke or Morepork
This guy just showed up and sat in the bottlebrush nest the the veranda for the day.
I think this is a Southern Boobook Owl?
Photographed at Cairns Tropical Zoo with a Canon 7D camera + Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Lens.
Exposure 1/160 | Aperture f/8 (my usual setting for this lens and zoo's) | Focal Length 100 mm | ISO Speed: 800
It's always encouraging to hear these guys hoot out across the neighbour hood at night. I've seen them three times, once just when I first got my camera, this time, and then another time I saw a pair of them too far away for a photo. Good to see we've got raptors in the area, and in our front yard, too.