Greater Honeyguide
Indicator indicator(Sparrman, A, 1777)
English (US) Greater Honeyguide
The Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) 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 Indicatoridae (Honeyguides) in the order Piciformes.
Range: widespread sub-Saharan AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Indicator indicator
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Greater Honeyguide
- Described by
- (Sparrman, A, 1777)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cuculus indicator
- Described by
- (Sparrman, A, 1777)
- Type locality
- Great Fish River, near Somerset East, Cape Province.
- Original description
- Philosophical Transactions 67 p.43 pl.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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