The Powerful Boobook is a large owl of forests in eastern and south-eastern Australia. It hunts mainly arboreal mammals, often waiting from a tree perch.
It has a relatively small head and a rounded tail. White bars mark the dark upperparts; pale chevrons pattern the underside, and the eyes are yellow.
It uses open forest, woodland, and sheltered wet forest gullies. It hunts mainly tree-dwelling mammals, swooping from a perch to catch prey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.