Hi Kev, Jeff et al.,
When I heard my first Morepork in NZ I thought its call was slightly hoarser than that of the Southern Boobooks in the Sydney area, which made me think “Of course that’s where the 2 ‘r’ in ‘morepork’ as opposed to the ‘oo’ in boobook come from!”. But then I also heard Southern Boobooks produce a hoarser call too and contradicted this naive approach. Do you have some evidence-based information regarding differences in their calls?
Cheers,
Nikolas
