Brown-headed Paradise-Kingfisher

Tanysiptera danae

Un martin pescatore dalla coda lunga della foresta di pianura e pedemontana. Testa e dorso marroni, parti inferiori e groppone arancioni, spalla blu intenso e coda lunga con punte bianche strette. Si posa silenziosamente nel sottobosco, occasionalmente muovendo la coda e sollevandola bruscamente quando spaventato. Simile al Martin pescatore del paradiso dal petto fulvo, ma quello dalla testa marrone ha una testa marrone anziché nera e blu e manca della striscia bianca lungo il dorso. Canto, una serie di note ascendenti e discendenti (o solo discendenti) e acceleranti che terminano con un trillo “weeep weep wewewewweewe……..”

Identificazione

The brown-headed kingfisher is 23 cm (9.1 in) in length excluding the streamers which are up to 9 cm (3.5 in). They weigh between 37 and 50 grams. The sexes are alike. The head, mantle and scapulars are a warm rufous-brown. The rump, breast and belly are pink-red. The flight feathers are black and the greater coverts are bright blue. The tail is dark purplish blue, the bill is red and the legs and feet are pink or orange.

Tassonomia

The first formal description of the brown-headed paradise kingfisher was by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1880 from specimens collected near Milne Bay in southeastern New Guinea. He coined the current binomial name Tanysiptera danae. The genus Tanysiptera had been introduced by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825. The name Tanysiptera is from classical Greek tanusipteros meaning "long-feathered". The specific epithet danae is from Greek mythology; Danaë was the daughter of Acrisius, King of Argos. The species is monotypic.

Nome scientifico
Tanysiptera danae
Autorità
Sharpe, 1880
Ordine
Coraciformi
Famiglia
Alcedinidae
Genere
Tanysiptera

Areale e habitat

The brown-headed paradise kingfisher is distributed in deep forest areas in the far east of New Guinea. It mainly inhabits the forests of foothills and occurs mainly in dense primary forests. Its altitude ranges from 300 to 1000 vertical metres. The common paradise kingfisher also occurs in its distribution area. Usually the brown-headed paradise kingfisher is represented at higher altitudes than the common paradise kingfisher. However, in the region around Popondetta, the capital of the province Oro of Papua New Guinea in the southeast of the island, both species occur at altitudes of 150 meters. The brown-headed paradise kingfisher is to be observed here even more frequently than the common paradise kingfisher.

Migrazione
Specie stanziale

Comportamento

Comportamento migratorio: Specie stanziale.

Conservazione

Tendenza della popolazione: stabile.

Tendenza della popolazione
stabile

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