Eastern Grass-owl

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Eastern Grass-owl
Painting from John Gould's Birds of Asia
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Strigiformes Family: Tytonidae Genus: Tyto Species: T. longimembris
Binomial name
Tyto longimembris (Jerdon, 1839)

The Eastern Grass-owl (Tyto longimembris), or Australian Grass-owl is a species of owl in the Tytonidae family. It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

This owl has long been considered conspecific with the African Grass-owl, T. capensis, but recent taxonomy again splits them.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Source

• BirdLife International 2004. Tyto longimembris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.