Eastern shriketit
The eastern shriketit (Falcunculus frontatus) is a species of bird in the family Falcunculidae. It is found in south-eastern Australia from the Lower South-East of South Australia, coastally and in the Murray-Darling Basin to south-eastern Queensland, with some scattered occurrences further north and west in Queensland.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Falcunculidae |
| Genus: | Falcunculus |
| Species: | F. frontatus |
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| Falcunculus frontatus (Latham, 1801) | |
The eastern shriketit was first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Lanius frontatus.[2]
References
- BirdLife International (2020). "Falcunculus frontatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T103693235A181646246. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- Latham, John (1801). Supplementum indicis ornithologici sive systematis ornithologiae (in Latin). London: Leigh & Sotheby. p. xviii.
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