Amaurornis moluccana, Wallace, 1865

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 26-27

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11645971

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB878A-FFCA-E120-A390-F9E4FC3DFF5B

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Amaurornis moluccana
status

 

RUFOUS-TAILED BUSH-HEN Amaurornis moluccana #

Range A. m. moluccana Biak, Supiori.

Status Resident. Surprisingly, the Biak and Supiori population is the sole representative of this taxon on the Teluk Cenderawasih Islands. Collected only by Ripley ( Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939), it is uncommon and easily overlooked unless vocalising, and has been recorded by very few visitors.

Breeding 24 August 2007: Bengtsson (2007) reported an adult with a juvenile.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Gruiformes

Family

Rallidae

Genus

Amaurornis

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