El nínox cridaner (Ninox connivens) és un ocell de la família dels estrígids (Strigidae) que habita boscos i sabanes a les Moluques, Nova Guinea i Austràlia.
El nínox cridaner (Ninox connivens) és un ocell de la família dels estrígids (Strigidae) que habita boscos i sabanes a les Moluques, Nova Guinea i Austràlia.
Aderyn a rhywogaeth o adar yw Gwalchdylluan gyfarthog (sy'n enw benywaidd; enw lluosog: gwalchdylluan cyfarthog) a adnabyddir hefyd gyda'i enw gwyddonol Ninox connivens; yr enw Saesneg arno yw Barking owl. Mae'n perthyn i deulu'r Tylluanod (Lladin: Strigidae) sydd yn urdd y Strigiformes.[1]
Talfyrir yr enw Lladin yn aml yn N. connivens, sef enw'r rhywogaeth.[2] Mae'r rhywogaeth hon i'w chanfod yn Awstralia.
Mae'r gwalchdylluan gyfarthog yn perthyn i deulu'r Tylluanod (Lladin: Strigidae). Dyma rai o aelodau eraill y teulu:
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rhywogaeth enw tacson delwedd Cordylluan Glaucidium passerinum Cordylluan Bolifia Glaucidium bolivianum Cordylluan Brasil Glaucidium brasilianum Cordylluan Ciwba Glaucidium siju Cordylluan dorchog Glaucidium brodiei Cordylluan fannog Glaucidium perlatum Cordylluan frongoch Glaucidium tephronotum Cordylluan Hardy Glaucidium hardyi Cordylluan resog Asia Glaucidium cuculoides Cordylluan y goedwig Glaucidium radiatum Cordylluan y Gogledd Glaucidium gnoma Cordylluan yr Andes Glaucidium jardiniiAderyn a rhywogaeth o adar yw Gwalchdylluan gyfarthog (sy'n enw benywaidd; enw lluosog: gwalchdylluan cyfarthog) a adnabyddir hefyd gyda'i enw gwyddonol Ninox connivens; yr enw Saesneg arno yw Barking owl. Mae'n perthyn i deulu'r Tylluanod (Lladin: Strigidae) sydd yn urdd y Strigiformes.
Talfyrir yr enw Lladin yn aml yn N. connivens, sef enw'r rhywogaeth. Mae'r rhywogaeth hon i'w chanfod yn Awstralia.
Der Kläfferkauz (Ninox connivens) ist eine mittelgroße Eulenart aus der Gattung der Buschkäuze (Ninox). Der Name bezieht sich auf den Ruf der Eule, der dem Bellen eines Hundes ähnelt.
Der Kläfferkauz ist in Australien und auf Neuguinea weitverbreitet und in allen Teilen seines Verbreitungsgebietes ein Standvogel. Es werden mehrere Unterarten unterschieden.[1] Die Bestandssituation wird von der IUCN als ungefährdet (least concern) eingestuft.[2]
Der Kläfferkauz erreicht eine Körperlänge von 38 bis 44 Zentimetern, wovon 14,3 bis 19,8 Zentimeter auf den Schwanz entfallen. Das Gewicht liegt zwischen 425 und 510 Gramm. Es besteht kein auffälliger Geschlechtsdimorphismus.[3]
Die Stirn, der Scheitel und der Gesichtsschleier sind graubraun. Der Rücken und der Mantel sind graubraun, wobei der Grauton etwas intensiver ist. Die Flügeldecken sind rauchig graubraun mit kleinen weißen Flecken. Die Arm- und Handschwingen sind etwas dunkler als die Flügeldecken und sind sehr schmal weißlich quergestreift. Der Schwanz ist graubraun mit fünf bis sechs weißlichen Querstreifen. Die Kehle ist hellbraun bis weißlich braun und weist graubraune Längsstreifen auf. Die Körperunterseite ist cremefarben mit auffälligen Längsstreifen. Die bräunlichen Farbtöne dieser Längsstreifen und ihre Dichte variieren individuell stark. Die Läufe sind befiedert. Die Augen sind gelb. Die Wachshaut des Schnabels ist grau. Der Schnabel ist dunkel hornfarben bis schwärzlich.
Das Verbreitungsgebiet des Kläfferkauzes sind die nördlichen Molukken, Neuguinea und die weniger ariden Regionen Australiens. In einigen Regionen wie beispielsweise Queensland und New South Wales ist der Kläfferkauz eine ausgesprochen häufige Art. Der Kläfferkauz besiedelt auch einige der Insel vor der Küste Australiens. Er fehlt in ariden Regionen und jenen Regionen, die keine hohen Bäume aufweisen. Er ist im gesamten Verbreitungsgebiet ein Standvogel.
Der Lebensraum sind Wälder der gemäßigten und subtropischen Klimazone. Er kommt auch in schmalen Waldstreifen entlang von Fließgewässern und entlang von Waldrändern vor. In Vorgebirgen kommt der Kläfferkauz auch in Regionen vor, die nur wenige Waldflecken in der Nähe von Sümpfen und anderen Feuchtgebieten aufweisen. Auf Neuguinea ist er überwiegend in den Tiefebenen anzutreffen. Auf der Insel Karkar kommt er in Höhenlagen bis zu 1040 Metern vor.[3]
Der Kläfferkauz ist grundsätzlich dämmerungs- und nachtaktiv, an wolkenverhangenen Wintertagen beginnt er jedoch gelegentlich noch vor Einbruch der Dämmerung zu jagen. Er lebt gewöhnlich in Paaren, die ganzjährig ein Revier besetzen. Innerhalb ihres Reviers haben sie Schlaf- und Ruheplätze, die sie immer wieder aufsuchen. Diese befinden sich gewöhnlich in einem laubtragenden Baum innerhalb einer Baumgruppe. Die Paare ruhen dort gewöhnlich in großer Nähe zueinander. Handelt es sich um mehr als zwei gemeinsam ruhende Kläfferkäuze, ist dies gewöhnlich der diesjährige Nachwuchs.[1]
Kläfferkäuze sind grundsätzlich nicht sehr scheu und häufig in ländlichen Regionen auch in der Nähe von Siedlungen anzutreffen.
Die Nahrung des Kläfferkauzes besteht aus kleinen Säugetieren und Vögeln sowie großen Insekten und anderen Wirbellosen. Im Süden Australiens stellen Kaninchen einen großen Teil seiner Beute dar. Vögel werden bis zur Größe eines Flötenvogels und eines Eulenschwalms geschlagen. Beute, die der Kläfferkauz nicht im Ganzen herunterschlucken kann, werden mit dem Schnabel in Stücke gerissen. Fledertiere und Insekten fängt er gelegentlich im Flug.
Die Brutzeit des Kläfferkauzes fällt in den Zeitraum Juli bis September. Er nistet gewöhnlich in natürlichen Baumhöhlen. Das Nest befindet sich fünf bis zehn Meter oberhalb des Erdbodens. Dort, wo geeignete Baumhöhlen fehlen, nistet er gelegentlich auch in Felsspalten und sogar in Kaninchenbauten.[1] Das Gelege besteht aus zwei bis drei Eiern, die jeweils mit einem Abstand von zwei bis drei Tagen gelegt werden. Es brütet nur das Weibchen. Die Brutzeit beträgt ungefähr 36 Tage. Die Nestlinge sind in einem Alter von fünf bis sechs Wochen flügge. Sie werden von den Elternvögeln einige Zeit versorgt. Ihre Geschlechtsreife erreichen sie etwa mit einem Lebensjahr.
Der Kläfferkauz (Ninox connivens) ist eine mittelgroße Eulenart aus der Gattung der Buschkäuze (Ninox). Der Name bezieht sich auf den Ruf der Eule, der dem Bellen eines Hundes ähnelt.
Der Kläfferkauz ist in Australien und auf Neuguinea weitverbreitet und in allen Teilen seines Verbreitungsgebietes ein Standvogel. Es werden mehrere Unterarten unterschieden. Die Bestandssituation wird von der IUCN als ungefährdet (least concern) eingestuft.
The barking owl (Ninox connivens), also known as the winking owl, is a nocturnal bird species native to mainland Australia and parts of New Guinea and the Moluccas. They are a medium-sized brown owl and have a characteristic voice with calls ranging from a barking dog noise to an intense human-like howl.
The owl takes its name from its characteristic barking voice. For a short period before 2016, the Red List of Threatened Species referred to this species as the "barking boobook". However, this is not used as a common name in Australia or other English speaking areas in this species' range and has now been corrected to barking owl. The Yanyuwa name for the owl is mulurrku.[3]
The barking owl was first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 with the binomial name Falco connivens.[4] Latham commented that the species "Inhabits New Holland, but no history annexed, further than that it has a wonderful faculty of contracting and dilating the iris: and that the native name is Goora-a-Gang."[5] The specific epithet is the Latin connivens 'winking'. [6]
There are five subspecies:[7]
N. b. remigialis was formerly considered a subspecies of the Australian boobook (N. boobook) but was transferred to N. connivens by the International Ornithological Congress in 2022.[10]
The barking owl is coloured brown with white spots on its wings and a vertically streaked chest. They have large eyes that have a yellow iris, a discrete facial mask and yellow skin on the feet. Their underparts are brownish-grey and coarsely spotted white with their tail and flight feathers being strongly banded brown and white. They are a robust, medium-sized owl 39–44 cm (15–17 in) long and their wingspan is between 85 and 120 cm (33 and 47 in).[11] They weigh between 380 and 960 g (13 and 34 oz)[12][p20]. Size varies only slightly between the male and female birds with the male barking owl being 8-10 % heavier. They are one of only a handful of owl species exhibiting normal sexual dimorphism. In a banding study conducted in the Pilliga forests of northern New South Wales, males averaged 824 g (29.1 oz) with females averaging 745 g (26.3 oz)[12][p20]. In Australia, the smallest barking owls are found on Cape York Peninsula and the largest in southern Australia.
The barking owl lives in mainland Australia along the eastern and northern coast of the continent and the southwest areas surrounding Perth, Western Australia. Inland they occupy areas near lakes and waterways or other wooded environments. They also live in drier parts of New Guinea and the Moluccas (Halmahera, Morotai, Bacan and Obi). Once widespread, barking owls are now less common in southern mainland Australia.
They choose to live in forests or woodland areas that have large trees for nesting and foliage cover for roosting. They often reside near river, swamp or creek beds as these features often have large trees with hollows required for nesting and the productivity to support sufficient prey. The only detailed studies of barking owl home-ranges have been conducted in southern Australia where the species is declining. In northern Victoria, barking owl pairs were found to average a home-range of 1,424 ha (3,520 acres) with little overlap between pairs. Foraging was concentrated within forested areas of each home range.[13] These results are mirrored in the Pilliga forests of northern NSW although there the home ranges were larger, often up to 2,500 ha (6,200 acres).[14]
Although barking owls are uncommon and sometimes even rare in many suburban areas, they occasionally do get accustomed to humans and even start to nest in streets or near farm-houses.
The barking owl has one of the broadest diets of any Australian owl. Barking owls hunt in timbered and open habitats but usually rely on trees as hunting perches. Their diet includes prey taken from the ground, the trees, the surface of waterbodies, and directly from the air. In some locations mammals make up the majority of prey biomass with prey sizes from mice and small carnivorous marsupials up to rabbits and brushtail possums around a kilogram or more in weight. Sugar gliders are a frequent prey item. Bats of all sizes are also commonly taken.
In some areas, bird prey items make a sizeable contribution to the diet. Birds up to the size of sulphur-crested cockatoos (~800 grams) and ducks are taken, but many smaller birds are more commonly taken. One frequent prey item is the tawny frogmouth, a nocturnal bird of Australian forests and woodlands. Insect prey items can dominate the prey item count. Beetles and moths are commonly taken on the wing. A range of other insects are also consumed. Occasionally frogs, reptiles, fish or crustaceans are eaten. In summary, if an animal can be detected by a barking owl and it is of its size or smaller, it can be considered as potential prey.[12][pp8–11, 35-77]
The breeding season of the barking owl is from July to September in the north of Australia and from August to October in the south.[15] The nest is formed of decayed debris, usually in the large hollow of an old eucalypt near a river.[16] A clutch of 2 or 3 roundish, dull-white eggs, each measuring 48 by 38 mm (1.9 by 1.5 in), is laid and incubated by the female for about 36 days.[15] The young at first are covered in white down and fledge by 5 to 6 weeks.[15]
Most people hear the barking owl rather than see it as it has a loud and explosive voice. The main territorial vocalisation is in the form of a double 'hoot', similar in pattern to the other Australian hawk owls. It sounds like a double dog bark that so closely resembles a small dog that it is difficult to tell the difference. The barking owl name is derived from these calls. Males 'bark' at a lower pitch than females, particularly when a pair perform the barking calls together. Barking calls can be varied in pitch and intensity depending on the purpose of the call. Loud barks are given as territorial calls and can be used in confrontations between pairs in adjacent territories. Lower pitched softer barks are often used around the nest or roost areas by the male to call the female for a meal.
Barking owls also have a range of other vocalisations. These might be described as growls, howls or screams and bleating and twittering. Growls and howls are part of a continuum of calls relating to threats, particularly during nesting. The level of the threat, typically determines the level of the call, with the lowest level being a low pitched and soft growl. This is usually a warning note to the nesting partner. This climbs into a louder and higher pitched series of howls, often made while the owl dives at the intruder. At its most extreme, this might be described as a scream. The screaming of the barking owl is said to sound like a woman or child screaming in pain. Hearings of 'screaming lady,' as it is so nicknamed, are rare and many only hear the sound once in their life even if they live next to a barking owl nest. While screams are usually related to nest defence, some barking owls will make this call in non-nest related situations. Myths surround the events that caused the owl to originally "mimic" the sounds.
Juvenile barking owls have a twittering, insect-like call when begging for food. It is similar to that of other juvenile hawk owls.[17] Female barking owls will often make a gentle bleating sound when receiving food from the male owl. An excited variation of this sound is made during copulation.
Barking owls are not listed as threatened on the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. However, their conservation status varies from state to state within Australia. For example:
In the State of Victoria, according to Action Statement 116 issued under the FFG Act: "The Barking Owl is the most threatened owl in Victoria. The population has been estimated to be fewer than 50 breeding pairs (Silveira et al. 1997), though work in north-eastern Victoria (Taylor et al. 1999; [13]) suggests that this estimate may have been conservative in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Existing records of Barking Owls on the Atlas of Victorian Wildlife database (NRE 2001) are unlikely to give an accurate representation of the current distribution and abundance of the species. Many of these records are dated, occurring in areas where once-suitable habitat has been lost or degraded. Extensive surveys in Victorian forests have shown the species to be rare, localised and mainly found in north-eastern Victoria (Loyn et al. 2001)."
A similar pattern of decline is evident in NSW with surveys in 1998, 2004 and 2008 showing barking owls to be rare in areas that had been assumed to be strongholds.[23][24][25] Larger population areas have been demonstrated to be isolated from one another.[26]
In south-western Australia a survey (in the late 1990s) of 100 forest sites found no barking owls.[27]
In contrast (as of 2012), barking owl calls are still a common sound in many wooded parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory, although there have been few recent published population studies/surveys in those areas.
According to the Action Statement No. 116 made under the state of Victoria, the primary threat to the barking owl is loss of habitat, particularly the deterioration or loss of the large, hollow-bearing trees on which the species depends for nesting. Hollows suitable for nesting for owls do not form in eucalypts until they are at least 150–200 years old.[28] Similarly, hollows are an important resource for many prey species of the barking owl, e.g. gliders and possums. Such trees are not being regrown rapidly enough to exceed expected losses in the next century. The removal of dead, standing trees and stags for firewood is also likely to remove nesting sites for the species. Native prey species such as arboreal mammals and hollow-nesting birds have declined in some areas through clearing of native vegetation, loss of hollows and the impact of introduced predators. These declines may also have contributed to the decline of the barking owl, although in some areas European rabbits have become a substitute prey, and local populations of the barking owl have become heavily dependent upon them. It is not known how the owls will fare through periods of rabbit decline due to climate fluctuations, control programs or disease such as calicivirus. Where poisons are used to control rabbits, secondary poisoning of owls may be an issue.
In the early settlement of Australia a screaming noise matching the barking owl's description was credited and told to the settlers by the Indigenous Australians or the Aboriginals as the bunyip. The bunyip was said to be a fearsome creature that inhabited swamps, rivers and billabongs. Bunyips had many different descriptions but most were of an animal of some sort whose favorite food was human women. The cries and noises coming from swamps and creeks at night were not said to be the victims but actually the noise the bunyip made. It is believed by many that the sound is of the nocturnal barking owl and that proves the location, the noises and the rarity of the bunyip cries. It is still not proven though that the barking owl actually started the bunyip story and it could be due to other sources. But it seems that the barking owl will stay as the most likely explanation. Myths surround the events that caused the owl to originally "mimic" the screaming sounds.[29]
The barking owl (Ninox connivens), also known as the winking owl, is a nocturnal bird species native to mainland Australia and parts of New Guinea and the Moluccas. They are a medium-sized brown owl and have a characteristic voice with calls ranging from a barking dog noise to an intense human-like howl.
Ninox connivens[2] es una especie nocturna de ave, que habita en Australia, Nueva Guinea y las Islas Molucas. Es un búho marrón de tamaño mediano que tiene un ulular muy característico, que puede cambiar de parecido a un ladrido de perro a un grito agudo parecido al de una mujer.
Fue descrito originalmente por el ornitólogo John Latham como Falco connivens. Latham comentó que ¨habitaba Nueva Holanda, tiene una maravillosa capacidad para dilatar y contraer el iris y su nombre nativo es Goora-a-gang.
Esta especie es de color marrón con puntos blancos en las alas y rayas en el pecho. Tienen ojos grandes con iris amarillos. Su pico es amarillo y puntiagudo. Sus partes inferiores son de color marrón grisáceo con puntos blancos y su cola y sus plumas de vuelo son a bandas blancas y marrones. Son robustos y miden entre 39 a 44 centímetros de largo y su envergadura es de 85 a 120 centímetros.[3] Pesan entre 380 y 960 gramos[4]diformismo sexual está presente en esta especie, siendo los machos un 8 por ciento más pesados que las hembras, hecho demostrado por un estudio hecho en los bosques de Pilliga en Nueva Gales del Sur.
Ninox connivens es una especie nocturna de ave, que habita en Australia, Nueva Guinea y las Islas Molucas. Es un búho marrón de tamaño mediano que tiene un ulular muy característico, que puede cambiar de parecido a un ladrido de perro a un grito agudo parecido al de una mujer.
Ninox connivens Ninox generoko animalia da. Hegaztien barruko Strigidae familian sailkatua dago.
Koirapöllö (Ninox connivens) on pöllöihin kuuluva lintu. Sitä tavataan Australiassa, Indonesiassa ja Papua-Uudessa-Guineassa[1]
Koirapöllö on keskikokoinen ruskea pöllö, ja sillä on hyvin luonteenomainen ääni joka voi kuulosta koiranhaukunnalta tai hyvin kovalta ja kimeältä naisen huudolta. Sen väitetään olevan Australian alkuperäisväestön kansantaruissa esiintyvän bunyipin lähde.
Sen luontaista elinpiiriä ovat lauhkean vyöhykkeen metsät subtrooppiset ja trooppiset kosteat alangot ja kosteat savannit sekä subtrooppiset ja trooppiset kosteat pensaikot ja lisäksi jokivarret, järvet ja suot.[1]
Koirapöllö on ruskea, ja sillä on valkoisia pilkkuja siivissä ja raidallisessa rinnassa. Sen silmät ovat suuret, ja silmät ovat keltaiset. Nokka on ruskea, eikä sillä juuri ole naamakiehkuraa. Alapuolelta se on ruskeanharmaa. Pyrstö ja siipisulat ovat vaaleammat. Koirapöllöt ovat keskikokoisia, ja niiden siipien väli on 85–100 cm. Ne painavan noin 425–510 g ja sukupuolet eroavat toisistaan vain vähän mutta koiras on vähän suurempi.
Koirapöllö (Ninox connivens) on pöllöihin kuuluva lintu. Sitä tavataan Australiassa, Indonesiassa ja Papua-Uudessa-Guineassa
Koirapöllö on keskikokoinen ruskea pöllö, ja sillä on hyvin luonteenomainen ääni joka voi kuulosta koiranhaukunnalta tai hyvin kovalta ja kimeältä naisen huudolta. Sen väitetään olevan Australian alkuperäisväestön kansantaruissa esiintyvän bunyipin lähde.
KoirapöllöSen luontaista elinpiiriä ovat lauhkean vyöhykkeen metsät subtrooppiset ja trooppiset kosteat alangot ja kosteat savannit sekä subtrooppiset ja trooppiset kosteat pensaikot ja lisäksi jokivarret, järvet ja suot.
Ninox connivens
La Ninoxe aboyeuse (Ninox connivens) est une espèce de rapace nocturne de la famille des Strigidae.
Cette espèce se rencontre en Australie, en Indonésie dans les petites îles de la Sonde, aux Moluques et en Nouvelle-Guinée occidentale et en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée en Nouvelle-Guinée et dans l'archipel Bismarck.
Ce sont des chouettes de taille moyenne mesurant de 38 à 43 cm de la tête à la queue[1]. Leurs cris très caractéristiques peuvent varier d'une sorte d'aboiements aux cris stridents d'une femme qui hurle. Les ninoxes aboyeuses ont souvent la réputation d'être à la source des mythes et légendes entourant le Bunyip.
Selon Alan P. Peterson, il en existe quatre sous-espèces :
Ninox connivens
La Ninoxe aboyeuse (Ninox connivens) est une espèce de rapace nocturne de la famille des Strigidae.
De blafuil (Ninox connivens) is een vogel uit de familie Strigidae (Echte uilen).
Deze soort komt voor op de Molukken, Nieuw-Guinea en Australië en telt 4 ondersoorten:
Ninox connivens é uma espécie de ave estrigiforme pertencente à família Strigidae.[1]
Ninox connivens é uma espécie de ave estrigiforme pertencente à família Strigidae.
Skällande spökuggla[2] (Ninox connivens) är en fågel i familjen ugglor inom ordningen ugglefåglar.[3]
Skällande spökuggla delas in i fyra underarter med följande utbredning:[3]
Arten har ett stort utbredningsområde men tros minska i antal, dock inte tillräckligt kraftigt för att den ska betraktas som hotad.[1] IUCN kategoriserar därför arten som livskraftig (LC).[1]
Skällande spökuggla (Ninox connivens) är en fågel i familjen ugglor inom ordningen ugglefåglar.
Cú sủa (tên khoa học Ninox connivens) là một loài chim săn mồi ban đêm trong họ Họ Cú mèo có nguồn gốc ở lục địa Australia, Papua New Guinea và quần đảo Moluccas. Đây là loài chim cú màu nâu, có kích thước trung bình và có một tiếng kêu rất đặc trưng gần giống tiếng chó sủa cho đến giống như tiếng thét lớn chói tai của phụ nữ. Cú sủa được mô tả đầu tiên bởi nhà nghiên cứu chim John Latham vào năm 1802.[2][3]
Cú sủa có bộ lông màu nâu với những đốm trắng trên đôi cánh và lông ngực sọc lẫn trắng lẫn nâu. Khuân mặt tròn, không có túm lông kiểu tai của các loài cú mèo, đôi mắt to, mỏ nhọn màu sẫm. Chân màu vàng nhạt, bao phủ lông thưa, móng vuốt mạnh mẽ. Kích thước trung bình, đuôi dài.[3]
Cú sủa có chiều dài 38–44 cm, sải cánh 85–120 cm và cân nặng 380- 960 gram. Chiều dài cánh 244–325 mm, đuôi dài 143–198 mm. Khối lượng chim trống lớn hơn chim mái một chút, khoảng 8-10 phần trăm. Tại Australia, những con Cú sủa nhỏ nhất được tìm thấy trên bán đảo Cape York và lớn nhất ở miền Nam Australia.[3][4]
Cú sủa sống ở nhiều vùng ẩm ướt trên lục địa Australia dọc theo bờ biển phía đông và phía bắc của lục địa và vùng phía tây nam. Khu vực nội địa mà chúng sinh sống là các khu vực gần hồ và sông hoặc môi trường sinh thái có nhiều cây cối. Chúng cũng sống ở các vùng khô hạn của Papua New Guinea và quần đảo Moluccas. Mặc dù phân bố rộng rãi, cú sủa hiện nay ít phổ biến ở vùng phía nam lục địa Australia.[3]
Cú sủa thường sống trong rừng hoặc các khu vực có cây lớn để làm tổ và có tán cây che phủ khi đậu. Chúng thường cư trú gần sông, đầm lầy hoặc lạch nước bởi vì ở đó thường có cây lớn với những cái hốc cần thiết cho làm tổ và cung cấp đủ con mồi.
Mặc dù cú sủa không phổ biến và đôi khi thậm chí hiếm hoi trong nhiều khu vực ngoại thành, chúng cũng đã quen với con người và thậm chí bắt đầu làm tổ trên đường phố hoặc gần các nông trại.
Cú sủa có một chế độ ăn uống đa dạng nhất trong số các loài cú ở Australia. Con mồi của chúng được bắt trên mặt đất, trên cây, ở bề mặt nước, hay trực tiếp trong không trung.
Động vật có vú với kích thước từ chuột nhắt và các loài thú có túi ăn thịt nhỏ (chuột chù túi) cho đến thỏ và thú có túi đuôi rậm (Trichosurus) có trọng lượng khoảng một kilôgam trở lên, là con mồi chủ yếu của Cú sủa. Sóc bay có túi (Petaurus breviceps) là con mồi thường xuyên. Các loài dơi với tất cả các kích cỡ cũng thường bị săn.
Ở một số vùng, các loài chim đóng góp khá lớn vào chế độ ăn của Cú sủa. Chim bị bắt lên đến kích thước của vẹt mào vàng (~ 800 gram) và vịt, nhưng con mồi đa phần là các loài chim nhỏ hơn. Con mồi thường xuyên là Cú muỗi mỏ quặp (Podargus strigoides), một loài chim rừng ăn đêm ở Australia.
Côn trùng cũng đóng vai trò là con mồi quan trọng của Cú sủa. Bọ cánh cứng và bướm đêm thường được bắt khi đang bay. Một loạt các loài côn trùng khác cũng được tiêu thụ. Đôi khi ếch, bò sát, động vật giáp xác hoặc cá cũng được ăn.[5]
Mùa sinh sản của Cú sủa vào khoảng tháng Bảy đến tháng Chín. Tổ được làm trên hốc cây, thường cách mặt đất vài mét đến 10m hoặc hơn; đôi khi sử dụng khe đá hoặc hang thỏ. Mỗi lứa đẻ 2-3 trứng tròn (43-50 x 36-41mm) màu trắng trong 2-3 ngày; con mái ấp một mình trong khoảng 36 ngày. Con non tập bay lúc 5-6 tuần tuổi, và vẫn được chim bố mẹ chăm sóc cho đến cuối mùa hè sau. Cú sủa đạt trưởng thành sinh dục khi khoảng một năm tuổi.[3]
Cú sủa có tất cả năm phân loài, bao gồm:[3]
Cú sủa (tên khoa học Ninox connivens) là một loài chim săn mồi ban đêm trong họ Họ Cú mèo có nguồn gốc ở lục địa Australia, Papua New Guinea và quần đảo Moluccas. Đây là loài chim cú màu nâu, có kích thước trung bình và có một tiếng kêu rất đặc trưng gần giống tiếng chó sủa cho đến giống như tiếng thét lớn chói tai của phụ nữ. Cú sủa được mô tả đầu tiên bởi nhà nghiên cứu chim John Latham vào năm 1802.