Archbold's newtonia

Archbold's newtonia

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Vangidae
Genus:	Newtonia
Species:	N. archboldi
Binomial name
*Newtonia archboldi* Delacour & Berlioz, 1931

The Archbold's newtonia (Newtonia archboldi) is a species of bird in the family Vangidae. It is endemic to Madagascar.

The name commemorates the New Guinea explorer and ornithologist Richard Archbold.^[2]

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

References

↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Newtonia archboldi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 28.

Vangas (order: Passeriformes · family: Vangidae)
Genus	Species
Calicalicus	Red-tailed vanga Red-shouldered vanga
Schetba	Rufous vanga
Vanga	Hook-billed vanga
Xenopirostris	Lafresnaye's vanga Van Dam's vanga Pollen's vanga
Falculea	Sickle-billed vanga
Artamella	White-headed vanga
Leptopterus	Chabert vanga
Cyanolanius	Blue vanga (including Comoro blue vanga)
Oriolia	Bernier's vanga
Euryceros	Helmet vanga
Tylas	Tylas vanga
Hypositta	Nuthatch vanga (or coral-billed nuthatch-vanga)
Newtonia	Dark newtonia Common newtonia Archbold's newtonia Red-tailed newtonia
Mystacornis	Crossley's vanga
Pseudobias	Ward's flycatcher

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