Blue-eared Kingfisher

Blue-eared Kingfisher

Taxobox
name = Blue-eared Kingfisher
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Coraciiformes
familia = Alcedinidae
genus = "Alcedo"
species = "A. meninting"
binomial = "Alcedo meninting"
binomial_authority = Horsfield, 1821
The Blue-eared Kingfisher, "Alcedo meninting", is found in South and South-east Asia. This is a small kingfisher almost identical to the Common Kingfisher, "Alcedo atthis". The Blue-eared Kingfisher is distinguished from the Common Kingfisher by blue ear coverts, darker and more intense cobalt-blue upperparts with richer rufous under parts. The juvenile Blue-eared Kingfisher has similar rufous ear-coverts like the Common Kingfisher; but it usually shows some mottling on the throat and upper breast which disappears when the bird reaches adulthood.

The average length of this kingfisher is 16cm. It is found near pools and streams in dense evergreen forest, situated under 1000m of altitude.

References

*Kazmierczak, K.2000."A Field Guide to the Birds OF India". ISBN 81-87107-04-9


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