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** Christmas Island Hawk Owl-Ninox Natailis **

**The Christmas Island Hawk Owl is a graceful powerful owl. It is small and red with a tiny bit of brown. It has a white chest and a yellowish gray bill.** **It has piercing yellow eyes and a brown tail. It is twenty six to twenty nine centimeters. It weighs extremly light at one hundred sixty to two hundred grams.** **If you live or visit Christmas Island you could hear it at night or even in the evening. It hides in dense brush or densely foliaged trees. When it howls it sounds similar to the Boobook owl, being two hoots, the second being slightly lower pitch.** **It repeats this call many times. It sounds slmost like a dog. The owl usaly eats insects and hardly eats small black rats or small birds.** **Scientists have not found out its mortality. They live in tropical rainforest, monsoon forest, and in scrub of Christmas Island.It only lives in Christmas Island.** 