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National Recovery Plan for the Christmas Island Hawk-Owl Ninox natalis
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Diet
Christmas Island Hawk-Owls are primarily insectivorous eating a wide variety of medium to large insects, especially Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, and Coleoptera. They also are recorded eating a range of vertebrates including Black Rats Rattus rattus, geckos, and Christmas Island White-eyes Zosterops natalis (Hill & Lill 1998b).