Biology:Boyer's cuckooshrike

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Short description: Species of bird

Boyer's cuckooshrike
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
Genus: Coracina
Species:
C. boyeri
Binomial name
Coracina boyeri
(G.R. Gray, 1846)

Boyer's cuckooshrike (Coracina boyeri) is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is widely spread across New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the French explorer Joseph Emmanuel P. Boyer.[2]

Subspecies

Source:[3]

  • C. b. boyeri: can be distinguished by the female's lores being white
  • C. b. subalaris: can be distinguished by the female's lores being gray

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Coracina boyeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22706516A94074477. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706516A94074477.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22706516/94074477. Retrieved 25 September 2021. 
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 62. 
  3. Diamond, Jared; Bishop, K. David; Sneider, Richard (2019-10-10). "An avifaunal double suture zone at the Bird's Neck Isthmus of New Guinea". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 131 (3): 435. doi:10.1676/18-167. ISSN 1559-4491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1676/18-167. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1590160 entry