Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher
Tanysiptera danaeSharpe, RB, 1880
English (US) Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher
The Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera danae) 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: southeastern New Guinea (Aroa River to Waria River)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Tanysiptera danae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher
- Described by
- Sharpe, RB, 1880
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tanysiptera Danae
- Described by
- Sharpe, RB, 1880
- Type locality
- Milne Bay, 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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