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National Recovery Plan for the Christmas Island Hawk-Owl Ninox natalis
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Taxonomic status
The Christmas Island Hawk-Owls is now considered a full species after Norman et al. (1998). Formerly a subspecies of N. squamipila, Norman et al. (1998) concluded, using molecular data, that the three subspecies for which material was available, including the Christmas Island Hawk-Owl, each represented separate species in the genus Ninox.