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Photo by TJ Collins
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Philemon buceroides

Includes: New Guinea Friarbird; Hornbill Friarbird

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Australia, New Guinea and Lesser Sundas (Indonesia).

[edit] Taxonomy

Clements¹ accepts six subspecies:

• P. b. neglectus of the W Lesser Sundas
• P. b. buceroides of the E Lesser Sundas
• P. b. gordoni of the Northern Territory (Australia)
• P. b. ammitophila of N Australia
• P. b. yorki of NE Queensland
• P. b. novaeguineae of New Guinea.

Novaguineae (together with yorki) is sometimes split as New Guinea Friarbird. Yorki also gets full species status sometimes as Hornbill Friarbird.

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID