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Beehler, B.M. and Pratt, T.K. 2016. Birds of New Guinea. Distribution, taxonomy, and systematics. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

Cleere, N. 1998. Nightjars: a guide to nightjars and related nightbirds. Pica Press, Robertsbridge, UK.

Dumbacher, J. P., Pratt, T. K. and Fleischer, R. C. 2003. Phylogeny of the owlet-nightjars (Aves: Aegothelidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29: 540-549.

eBird. 2022. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.

Global Forest Watch. 2022. Interactive Forest Change Mapping Tool. Available at: http://www.globalforestwatch.org/.

Google Earth. 2022. Satellite Imagery. Available at: https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/. (Accessed: 2022).

Gregory, P. 2017. Birds of New Guinea: including Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

IUCN. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2023).

Pratt, T. K. 2000. Evidence for a previously unrecognized species of Owlet-nightjar. The Auk 117(1): 1-11.

Pratt, T. K. and Beehler, B. M. 2015. Birds of New Guinea. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

Verbelen, P. 2014. First record of the Starry Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles tatei in Indonesian New Guinea (Papua). Kukila 18(1): 10-16.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Starry Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles tatei. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/starry-owlet-nightjar-aegotheles-tatei on 23/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.