Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1766)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 12, vol. 1, part 1

Protonym:
  Coracias orientalis

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  887798F24755E0E7

Avibase ID:
  avibase-887798F2

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/887798F2

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 178135

Geographic range:

• Eurystomus orientalis orientalis: breeds from the southern Himalayas to the Ryukyu Islands and southeastern Asia, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, and Borneo; winters to southeastern India, the Philippines, Sulawesi, and aelmahera
• Eurystomus orientalis laetior: southwestern India (southern Western Ghats)
• Eurystomus orientalis gigas: S Andaman Islands
• Eurystomus orientalis oberholseri: Simeulue I. (off Sumatra)
• Eurystomus orientalis waigiouensis: New Guinea, w Papuan is., D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade Arch.
• Eurystomus orientalis [pacificus or connectens]: resident in the Lesser Sundas and northernmost Australia, probably also southern Sulawesi and the Sula Islands; also breeds northern and eastern Australia populations, these populations wintering north to New Guinea and Wallacea
• Eurystomus orientalis crassirostris: Bismarck Archipelago
• Eurystomus orientalis solomonensis: Feni I. and Solomon Islands
• Eurystomus orientalis [cyanicollis or latouchei]: Himalayas to China, Manchuria and Korea; winters to Indonesia
• Eurystomus orientalis irisi: Sri Lanka
• Eurystomus azureus: N Moluccas
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