Typical Owls (Strigidae)

Sumba Boobook (Ninox rudolfi) - HBW 5, p. 232

French: Ninoxe de Sumba German: Sumbakauz Spanish: Nínox de Sumba
Other common names: Sumba Hawk-owl

Taxonomy: Ninox rudolfi A. B. Meyer, 1882, Sumba Island.
Sometimes considered to form superspecies with N. boobook and N. novaeseelandiae. Often treated as conspecific with N. boobook, which itself was formerly regarded as belonging to N. novaeseelandiae. Species name sometimes spelt, erroneously, rudolphi. Monotypic.

Distribution: Sumba I, in C Lesser Sundas.