owl

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Po-buck
English JS Main: 
owl
English: 
Owlet-nightjar
Category: 
fauna: birds
Sub-category: 
night
Source: 
Hunter Sketch Book
Page: 
73
Respelt: 
bu-bag
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
178890
Source Details: 
The Hunter Sketch Book: Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788 & 90 By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. General Editor John Calaby. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1989
Comment: 
... ’Phillip’s Voyage, 1789: New Holland Goatsucker; Crested Goatsucker; White’s Journal: Crested Goatsucker. ’The name ‘po-buck’ does not resemble the bird’s call, and probably arose from coinfuszion with another nocturla bird, the boobook owl Ninox boobook (Latham 1801), whose call it does resemble’ (HSB, 72)