Published March 6, 2023
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Amaurornis moluccana Wallace 1865
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Description
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.
Notes
Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wallace
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- Genus
- Amaurornis
- Species
- moluccana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Amaurornis moluccana Wallace, 1865 sec. Bishop, 2023
References
- Mayr, E. & Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1939. Zoological results of the Denison-Crockett Expedition to the South Pacific for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1937 - 1938. Part I. The birds of the island of Biak. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 91: 1 - 37.