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Boo is our Male Hand Reared Display Boobook Owl.

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The Southern Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae), also called the Mopoke or Morepork, is a small brown owl found mainly in New Zealand and the more fertile and temperate parts of Australia. The Australian species is the smallest species of owl in Australia. Further to the north it is less common but widespread, its range extending to most of northern, central and western Australia, Timor, southern New Guinea and nearby islands including Tasmania.

The subspecies Lord Howe Boobook and the Norfolk Island Boobook became both extinct  during the 20th century. The name boobook is used by the Eora Australian Aboriginal tribe, who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney region.

The boobook which lives in Australia was originally thought to be the same species as the New Zealand morepork (ruru) but recent research has suggested this species is actually slightly larger than the New Zealand version.