White-eared catbird

White-eared catbird
At Denver Zoo, USA
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ptilonorhynchidae
Genus: Ailuroedus
Species: A. buccoides
Binomial name
Ailuroedus buccoides
(Temminck, 1835)

The white-eared catbird (Ailuroedus buccoides) is a species of bird in the family Ptilonorhynchidae. It is found in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Martin Irestedt and colleagues examined the White-eared catbird species complex genetically and found there were three distinct lineages: the white-eared catbird (Ailuroedus buccoides) proper of the Bird's Head (Vogelkop) Peninsula, the ochre-breasted catbird (Ailuroedus stonii) of the southern lowlands of New Guinea, and tan-capped catbird (Ailuroedus geislerorum) of the northern lowlands of New Guinea.[2]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Ailuroedus buccoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Irestedt, Martin; Batalha-Filho, Henrique; Roselaar, Cees S.; Christidis, Les; Ericson, Per G. P. "Contrasting phylogeographic signatures in two Australo-Papuan bowerbird species complexes (Aves: Ailuroedus)". Zoologica Scripta. doi:10.1111/zsc.12163.
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