Wallace's owlet-nightjar

Wallace's owlet-nightjar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Aegothelidae
Genus: Aegotheles
Species: A. wallacii
Binomial name
Aegotheles wallacii
Gray, 1859

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

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

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Aegotheles wallacii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  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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