Two records of an Australian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles cristatus roosting in forestry boom-gates in Tasmanian forests

Mark Wapstra
pp. 156-158


Abstract

Two observations are presented of the infrequently encountered Tasmanian subspecies of the Australian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles cristatus tasmanicus roosting in the horizontal tubular bar of forestry boom-gates in Tasmanian forests.


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