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Wallace's Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles wallacii)

Wallace's Owlet-nightjar
Photo: John Gould / William Matthew Hart via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain — free for commercial reuse.

About the Wallace's Owlet-nightjar

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.

Source: Wallace's owlet-nightjar on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 13 recordings for this species: 8 CC BY-NC-ND · 5 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Papua New Guinea in the xeno-canto catalogue.