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Northern Boobok
Ninox japonica · Family Strigidae
Ninox japonica
Family Strigidae
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 74,791
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 74,791 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (94.7%), Japan (1.5%), South Korea (1.3%) and China (1.3%); together they account for 98.7% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.34% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ninox japonica combines the genus name Ninox with the species epithet japonica. The Warbla app catalog lists 35 species of the genus Ninox; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ninox boobook, Ninox novaeseelandiae and Ninox strenua.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 217 species of the family Strigidae. This species ranks 29th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Bubo virginianus. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (52,528). The family Strigidae belongs to the order Strigiformes, which has 233 species in the Warbla app catalog.