Wallace's owlet-nightjar
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| Species: | A. wallacii
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| Aegotheles wallacii Gray, 1859
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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
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ 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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