ABOUT THIS SPECIES
GREEN KINGFISHER – (Species Account Weblog #109)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Coraciiformes – kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoes, and hornbills,
- FAMILY: Alcedinidae – Kingfishers,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Chloroceryle americana
The Inexperienced Kingfisher is a small kingfisher with disproportionately lengthy invoice. Darkish shiny inexperienced above with white throat, collar, and spots on wings. Tail typically held cocked up. White outer tail feathers noticed with inexperienced conspicuous in flight. Male has rufous breast; feminine breast white with noticed inexperienced double-collar. (from Birds of the World)
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed two Inexperienced Kingfishers on the Chilamate Rainforest Eco Retreat close to Sarapiquí.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Photograph Gallery photographs (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by international locations.
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