Aegotheles tatei

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	CAPRIMULGIFORMES	AEGOTHELIDAE

Scientific Name:

Aegotheles tatei

Species Authority:

Pratt, 2000

Common Name/s:

English

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Starry Owlet-nightjar

Taxonomic Notes:

Aegotheles insignis (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into A. insignis and A. tatei following Pratt (2000).

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Data Deficient ver 3.1

Year Published:

2012

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Butchart, S. & Symes, A.

Contributor/s:

Bishop, K. & Pratt, T.

Justification:
This species is known from four museum specimens and two field reports, and there is no information on its likely distribution extent, population size, trends or threats, although it may be threatened by logging. For these reasons, it is classified as Data Deficient.

History:

2008	–	Data Deficient
2004	–	Data Deficient
2000	–	Data Deficient
1994	–	Not Recognized
1988	–	Not Recognized

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Aegotheles tatei of Papua New Guinea is known from four museum specimens and two field reports. Two specimens were taken in 1936 from Palmer Junction close to the Indonesian border, one in 1969 from Nunumai in the far south-east, one unlabelled from the 1920s. One was sighted in 1962 at Brown River west of Nunumai (Pratt 2000, T. K. Pratt in litt. 2000). A previously undescribed grey-morph bird was reported in 2003 along the Drimgas Road, c.17 km north of Kiunga in the Western Province (K. D. Bishop in litt. 2003). If tatei proves to be absent from many suitable sites, it may be classified as threatened on the basis of a highly restricted range but given the difficulties of surveying owlet-nightjars, especially given that the call of tatei is unknown, its status is currently uncertain.
Countries:	Native: Papua New Guinea
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Population [top]

Population:	The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as possibly fairly common, although little known (Cleere 1998).
Population Trend:	Stable

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	All records are from lowland riverine rainforest at 30-80 m close to hills.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Lowland riverine rainforest has been extensively logged or cleared in New Guinea but large areas still remain intact.

Major Threat(s):

Lowland riverine rainforest has been extensively logged or cleared in New Guinea but large areas still remain intact.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Conservation Actions Underway None is known. Conservation Actions Proposed Attempt to establish its call then use playback to survey potentially suitable lowland riverine forest.

Conservation Actions:

Conservation Actions Underway
None is known.

Conservation Actions Proposed
Attempt to establish its call then use playback to survey potentially suitable lowland riverine forest.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2012. Aegotheles tatei. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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