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Northern booboks use hollows in trees as nests.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Northern boobok
- Scientific name
- Ninox japonica
- Japanese name
- アオバズク
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Strigiformes
- Family
- Strigidae
- Genus
- Ninox
A member of the owl family that migrates to broadleaf woods and to shrines with big trees.
It has yellow eyes and brown streaks running down its white belly. It calls 'hoo-hoo'.
It is most active at dusk and dawn, catching big insects as well as small birds and bats.
How the Northern boobok lives
Some stay through the winter in warm regions.
日本野鳥の会 BIRD FANBasic data
- Size
- Total length: 29 cm日本野鳥の会 BIRD FAN
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)国土交通省 山国川河川事務所
- Diet
- Cicadas, dragonflies, moths and other insects国土交通省 山国川河川事務所
Where the Northern boobok has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アオバズク
- 简体中文
- 日本鹰鸮
- 繁體中文
- 褐鷹鴞
- 한국어
- 솔부엉이
- Español
- Nínox japonés
- Français
- Ninoxe boréale
- Deutsch
- Japankauz
- Português (Brasil)
- Mocho-japonês
- Italiano
- Gufastore settentrionale
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Punggok utara
- Русский
- Японская иглоногая сова
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 日本野鳥の会 BIRD FAN — アオバズクChecked: 2026-11-03
- 国土交通省 山国川河川事務所 — 山国川の鳥図鑑 アオバズクChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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