Ninox theomacha
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
The Papuan boobook (Ninox theomacha), jungle boobook or jungle hawk owl, is a medium-sized, dark-colored owl. It has a dark gray-brown facial disk with lighter colored eyebrows, sooty or chocolate underparts, and mainly dark gray wings.
It lives mainly in lowland forests, montane forests, and submontane forests, mainly on the forests' edges. It is native to New Guinea. The Jungle Hawk Owl is the name of a long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle developed by students at MIT. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raja Ampat | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
No species of the same family or order lives in Raja Ampat, so these are its closest relatives here: other birds.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Jungle Hawk-Owl sighting in Raja Ampat on a given day, based on 208 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 61st most-seen of the 200 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Jungle Hawk-Owl in Raja Ampat on a given day, against under 5% in December, the lowest month.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jungle Hawk-Owl sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Raja Ampat, in our data
Raja Ampat is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Jungle Hawk-Owl sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jungle Hawk-Owl is recorded against all the birds logged in Raja Ampat (208 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
