Vanuatu Kingfisher
Todiramphus farquhari(Sharpe, RB, 1899)
English (US) Vanuatu Kingfisher
The Vanuatu Kingfisher (Todiramphus farquhari) 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: Espiritu Santo, Malo, and Malakula (northern to central Vanuatu)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Todiramphus farquhari
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Vanuatu Kingfisher
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1899)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Halcyon farquhari
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1899)
- Type locality
- Malikolo and Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 10 p.29
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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