Golden Masked-owl
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| Tyto aurantia (Salvadori, 1881) |
The Golden Masked-owl (Tyto aurantia) is a barn-owl endemic to the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It is also known as New Britain Barn-owl, New Britain Masked-owl, Bismarck Owl and Bismarck Masked-owl.
As with other tropical barn-owls, it is difficult to spot in the wild and therefore poorly studied. It is likely to be a lowland forest species.
Given the paucity of reliable information, it was for some time classified as a data deficient species by the IUCN[1]. When its status could finally be evaluated properly, earlier assessments were found to be correct, and it is once again listed as a Vulnerable species in the 2008 redlist[2].
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- BirdLife International (BLI) (2004). Tyto aurantia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 08 July 2007.
- BirdLife International (BLI) (2008): [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes]. Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.
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