Willcocks's honeyguide

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Willcocks's honeyguide
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Indicatoridae
Genus: Indicator
Species:
I. willcocksi
Binomial name
Indicator willcocksi
Alexander, 1901 [2]

Willcocks's honeyguide (Indicator willcocksi) is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. It is found mainly throughout the African tropical rainforest.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the General Sir James Willcocks. [3]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Indicator willcocksi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T22680634A111733104. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22680634A111733104.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Alexander, B, 1901. Indicator willcocksi (protonym). Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 12, p. 11. BHL
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 367.


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