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Scientific Name : Ninox strenua
Common Name : Powerful owl
Description : Largest Australian owl, length 600 to 650 mm. Dark brown barred with white and pale brown, Eye orange-yellow. Voice a mournful, loud, slow woo-hoo, repeated after about 10 seconds.
Habitat : Mostly in mature wet schlerophyll forest.
Distribution : South-East Australia, from Portland in Victoria to Rockhampton in Queemsland. In the Park, often recorded in Foster's Gully where its favourite food the Greater Glider Petauroides volans is also found.
Family : Strigidae
 
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Powerful Owl in Fosters Gully
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Powerful Owl in Fosters Gully
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Adult powerful owl
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Newly fledged juvenile powerful owl
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Newly fledged juvenile powerful owl
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Pair of Powerful Owls in Fosters Gully, just outside Morwell National Park
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Powerful Owl in Fosters Gully, just outside Morwell National Park
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Powerful Owl in Fosters Gully, just outside Morwell National Park