Shovel-billed Kookaburra
Dacelo rex(Sharpe, RB, 1880)
English (US) Shovel-billed Kookaburra
The Shovel-billed Kookaburra (Dacelo rex) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Alcedinidae (Kingfishers) in the order Coraciiformes.
Range: New Guinea (primarily in hills and adjacent lowlands)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Dacelo rex
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Shovel-billed Kookaburra
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1880)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Clytoceyx rex
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1880)
- Type locality
- East Cape, New Guinea.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.5, vol.6, no.33 p.231
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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