Wallace's owlet-nightjar
Wallace's owlet-nightjar | |
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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
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Aegotheles wallacii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ 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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