Typical Owls (Strigidae)

Speckled Hawk-owl (Ninox punctulata) - HBW 5, p. 236

French: Ninoxe pointillée German: Pünktchenkauz Spanish: Nínox Punteado
Other common names: Speckled Boobook

Taxonomy: Noctua punctulata Quoy and Gaimard, 1830, Sulawesi.
Affinities uncertain; considered by some authors to be close to N. ochracea, but this apparently far from the case. Monotypic.

Distribution: Sulawesi, including Kabaena, Muna and Butung Is.