- and also
known by
numerous other onomatopoeic names (such as boobook,
mopoke or ruru), is a smallish,
brown owl
species found in New Zealand, and to...
-
Curlew ****cissel Dik-dik
Hadada Hoopoe Hoot owl Kea
Killdeer Kiskadee Mopoke,
morepork or
boobook owl
Pewee Pobblebonk Potoo Poorwill Spring Peeper Weero...
-
variety of
wildlife resides in
Grays Point,
including possums,
sugar gliders,
Mopoke owls, deer (an
introduced species), wallabies,
magpies and kookaburras....
- end up
catching Currawong and
Mopoke at some point, but are
chased away from
their camp afterwards. The Man sets
Mopoke and
Currawong free.
After some...
-
memory in the 1890s that the
bunyip supposedly had a
snout like an owl ("a
mopoke"), and was
probably a
nocturnal creature by her estimation. The bunyips...
- the Raak Plain.
Other historical relics include Shearer's
Quarters and
Mopoke Hut,
built as
grazier accommodation in the 1960s. Over 600
species of plants...
- and
similar colouring. In the past, it was
sometimes mistakenly called a
mopoke or mopawk, a name used for the
Australian boobook, the call of
which is...
- "Eric Amazing" Eric and
Allan Amazing The
Silver Brumby "Foals in Trouble"
Mopoke and
Cullawong Collided in mid-air and
struck by
lightning during a thunderstorm...
-
comes from the two-tone call of the bird, and has also been
transcribed as "
mopoke".
William Dawes recorded the name bōkbōk "an owl" in 1790 or 1791, in his...
- it is not
found in arid areas. The
boobook can be
commonly known as the '
mopoke' due to its call (double hoot 'boo-book'). This owl is
commonly mixed up...
