Grauer's broadbill
| Grauer's broadbill | |
|---|---|
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Eurylaimidae |
| Genus: | Pseudocalyptomena Rothschild, 1909 |
| Species: | P. graueri |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudocalyptomena graueri Rothschild, 1909[2] | |
The Grauer's broadbill or African green broadbill (Pseudocalyptomena graueri) is a species of bird in the Eurylaimidae family, and is monotypic within the genus Pseudocalyptomena.[3] Its name commemorates the German zoologist Rudolf Grauer who collected natural history specimens in the Belgian Congo.[4]
Relationships
Baron Walter Rothschild, who described this species, considered it to be a flycatcher only superficially similar to the Asian broadbills of the genus Calyptomena, hence the name pseudo- or "false" Calyptomena. It now appears that it is an actual broadbill, one of only a few African representatives of a primarily Asian family.
Description
It is bright green with a blue throat and vent and a small bill, quite unlike those of the other broadbills.
Habitat and range
It occurs in tropical moist montane forest, and is endemic to the Albertine Rift Mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. In Uganda it is a rare resident at 2,100 to 2,200 metres in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.[5]
Status
This species is rare, and is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Pseudocalyptomena graueri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Description of a new Bird from Africa
- ↑ Thomas M. Brooks, John D. Pilgrim, Ana S. L. Rodrigues & Gustavo A. B. Da Fonseca (2005). "Conservation status and geographic distribution of avian evolutionary history". In Andy Purvis, John L. Gittleman & Thomas Brooks. Phylogeny and Conservation. Conservation Biology 8. Cambridge University Press. pp. 267–294. ISBN 978-0-521-82502-3.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 94.
- ↑ Britton, P. L. (ed.) (1980). Birds of East Africa: their habitat, status and distribution. Nairobi: East Africa Natural History Society. p. 112.
- Kingdon, Jonathan (1989). Island Africa: The Evolution of Africa's Rare Plants and Animals. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 184. ISBN 0-691-08560-9.
- Lambert, Frank; Woodcock, Martin (1996). Pittas, Broadbills, and Asities. Sussex, England: Pica Press.
External links
- BirdLife Species Factsheet.
- Pseudocalyptomena graueri - Animal Diversity Web