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Machaerirhynchus
Sign in to saveMachaerirhynchus is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMachaerirhynchidae
Observations recorded21,715
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 56
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Machaerirhynchidae
- Collections
- ROM, ANWC
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
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- Machaerirhynchidae
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- Yellow-breasted Boatbill (Machaerirhynchus flaviventer).jpg
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Machaerirhynchus is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland.
The species are: Black-breasted boatbill, M. nigripectus, found in New Guinea Yellow-breasted boatbill, M. flaviventer, found in northeast Australia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Machaerirhynchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.