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Booted Racket-tail Ocreatus underwoodii Scientific name definitions

Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann and Peter F. D. Boesman
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 1999

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Recommended Citation

Schuchmann, K.L. and P. F. D. Boesman (2020). Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.bortai1.01