{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Whēkau
| status = EX
| extinct = [[1914]]?
| image = Keulemans_Laughing_Owl.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| regnum = [[Kararehe|Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Angaroto|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Manu|Aves]]
| ordo = [[Owl|Strigiformes]]
| familia = [[Strigidae]]
| genus = '''''Sceloglaux'''''
| genus_authority = [[Johann Jakob Kaup|Kaup]], 1848
| species = '''''S. albifacies'''''
| binomial = ''Sceloglaux albifacies''
| binomial_authority = ([[George Robert Gray|Gray GR]], [[1845]])
}}

Ko te '''Whēkau''' he manu kua ngaro i te mata o te whenua, he manu ngahere nō [[Aotearoa]]. He momo [[ruru]] tēnei manu, engari he mā te mata, he rahi atu te tinana i tō te ruru. Ko te ingoa pūtaiao ko ''Sceloglaux albifacies''. Ko te ingoa [[reo Pākehā]] ko te ''Laughing owl''. 

== Tohutoro ==
* Robertson, C J R. (Etita), 1985. ''Reader's Digest Complete Book of New Zealand Birds''. Poihākena: Reader's Digest. 

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