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Taxonomic note
Athene jacquinoti, A. granti, A. malaitae and A. roseoaxillaris (HBW and BirdLife International 2024) were previously included within Ninox (del Hoyo and Collar 2014), prior to which all were considered conspecific with N. jacquinoti following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993) (see related note/s, where each taxon differs stepwise from the next so that comparisons are simply made between neighbours). They were moved to the present genus on the basis of molecular studies (Gwee et al. 2017, Salter et al. 2020). Four subspecies recognized. Four subspecies recognized.

Taxonomic source(s)
Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International. 2024. Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 9. BirdLife International. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v9_Oct24.zip.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2024	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2014	Least Concern
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	high
Land-mass type		Average mass	156 g

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	87,900 km2
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	5.1 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is reported to be widespread within its range and reasonably common (del Hoyo et al. 1999). This species is considered to have a high dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 8.5% within its mapped range over the past three generations (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). It is therefore tentatively suspected that this rate of cover loss may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame, with a best estimate of reduction being 5-9%.

Trend justification:   .

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Papua New Guinea	extant	native	yes
Solomon Islands	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Solomon Islands	Mount Maetambe - Kolombangara River

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	suitable	resident
Altitude	0 - 2000 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: West Solomons Owl Athene jacquinoti. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/west-solomons-owl-athene-jacquinoti on 22/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/12/2024.