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Photo by TJ Collins
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
Philemon buceroides

Includes: New Guinea Friarbird; Hornbill Friarbird

Identification

Distribution

Australia, New Guinea and Lesser Sundas (Indonesia).

Taxonomy

Clements1 accepts six subspecies:

Novaguineae (together with yorki) is sometimes split as New Guinea Friarbird. Yorki also gets full species status sometimes as Hornbill Friarbird.

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

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