North Island Saddleback
Philesturnus rufusater(Lesson, RP, 1828)
English (US) North Island Saddleback
The North Island Saddleback (Philesturnus rufusater) 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 Callaeidae (New Zealand Wattlebirds) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: formerly widespread on North Island (New Zealand); by 1950s confined to Hen Island, now introduced to and has colonzied additional outlying islandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Philesturnus rufusater
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- North Island Saddleback
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1828)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Icterus rufusater
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1828)
- Type locality
- Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand.
- Original description
- Voyage autour du Monde exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 (etc.). Zoologie 2 p.355
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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