Endangered
Little Sumba Hawk-Owl
Ninox sumbaensis
Little Sumba Hawk-Owl is a bird in the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes) — Ninox sumbaensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Indonesia.
Appearance
The head is grey with fine dark barring and distinctive white eyebrows but an indistinct facial disc. The beak is large and yellow, the eyes are yellow and there are no eartufts. The upper parts are light brown with widely separated, dark wavy markings and the underparts are whitish with fine dark chevrons.
The least boobook is about 23 cm (9.1 in) long and weighs 90 g (3.2 oz).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumba. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Habitat labels include tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Little Sumba Hawk-Owl is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Little Sumba Hawk-Owl, Wikidata item Q1300381. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
