Wallace's owlet-nightjar

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Wallace's owlet-nightjar
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Aegotheliformes
Family: Aegothelidae
Genus: Aegotheles
Species:
A. wallacii
Binomial name
Aegotheles wallacii
G.R. Gray, 1859

Wallace's owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles wallacii) is a species of bird in the family Aegothelidae. It is found in New Guinea.

It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist. [2]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Aegotheles wallacii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T22689568A118125873. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22689568A118125873.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.
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