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Genus: Aegotheles (10 species)


Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles affinis) Near Threatened Range: AU: Arfak Mts., Bird's Head (nw New Guinea) Arfak Mountains, West Papua, Indonesia
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Mountain Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles albertisi) Range: AU: montane New Guinea Kumul Lodge, Papua New Guinea
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Barred Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles bennettii bennettii) Range: AU: c to se New Guinea Varirata National Park, Papua New Guinea
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.


Moluccan Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles crinifrons) Range: AU: Halmahera and Bacan (n Moluccas) Aketajawe-Lolobata NP, Halmahera, Indonesia.
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Australian Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles cristatus cristatus) Range: AU: sc, se New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania Australia
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Feline Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles insignis) Male Range: AU: montane New Guinea Mokwam, West Papua, Indonesia
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.

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New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles savesi) Critically Endangered Range: AU: Grande Terre (New Caledonia); likely extinct


Starry Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles tatei) Range: AU: Fly/Elevala area of ec New Guinea and Amazon Bay area of far se New Guinea Elevala River, Papua New Guinea
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

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Karimui Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles terborghi) Range: AU: Karimui Basin (sc New Guinea)


Wallace's Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles wallacii) Range: AU: Waigeo (Raja Ampat Is., nw of New Guinea), Aru Is. (sw of New Guinea), Bird's Head (nw New Guinea) and patchily in New Guinea Malagufuk, West Papua, Indonesia
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.

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