Actenoides bougainvillei (Rothschild, 1904)
Moustached kingfisher
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Actenoides bougainvillei bougainvillei Rothschild, 1904
Conservation Status
Last record: 1938 (BirdLife International, 2012)
Rediscovered in the 1980's
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rothschild, Walter. (1904). "two very interesting new Kingfishers". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 15(109): 5-7.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2016). Actenoides bougainvillei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22726874A94934210. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726874A94934210.en. Downloaded on 12 February 2017.
Bishop, K. D. (1987). Interesting bird observations in Papua New Guinea. Muruk 2(2): 52-57.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]