Aegotheles wallacii — The Life Data

Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Apodiformes/Aegothelidae/Aegotheles

At a glance

Occurrence records262

Data sources6

Biological traits23

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Aegotheles wallacii's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility262 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page3 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources23 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF262 records

01Narrative

Wallace's owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles wallacii) is a species of bird in the family Aegothelidae. It is found in New Guinea. It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesAmnioteDBAVONETEltonTraits

Size & morphology13

Beak depth3.9 mm

Beak length (culmen)17.5 mm

Beak length (nares)5.4 mm

Beak width3.8 mm

Body mass49.5 g

Body mass (female)52 g

Body mass (male)49.5 g

Hand-wing index30

Kipp's distance35.7 mm

Secondary length83.3 mm

Tail length103 mm

Tarsus length18.5 mm

Wing length119 mm

Diet & foraging6

Ground40 %

Invertebrate100 %

Midhigh40 %

Trophic levelcarnivore

Trophic nicheInvertivore

Understory20 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatForest

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

Range size40 086 km²

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type262 records

Wild obs. + sensor256

Museum / vouchered6

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO164 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy67% within 1 km

≤100 m 3≤1 km 1>10 km 2

6 georeferenced · 250 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor256

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy80% within 1 km

≤100 m 2≤1 km 2>10 km 1

5 georeferenced · 1 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence6

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions3 of 4 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Cambridge, US	2
Brussels, BE	2
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	1
Honolulu, US	1

4 institutions · 6 of 6 vouchered records shown