Banded Kingfisher
Lacedo pulchella
Brilliantly colored kingfisher with a heavy crimson bill and a large puffy head. Male is bright blue with an orange face, white chin, light orange breast, and black-and-blue banded wings and tail. Female is striped like a tiger, with orange and black patterning across her entire body. Perches quietly and absolutely motionless at various levels of the forest, usually mid-height to low, where it can be difficult to detect. Inhabits lowland and hill forests. Gives away its presence with a long haunting whistle followed by a series of mellow whistles.
识别特征
The banded kingfisher is a 20 cm (7.9 in) long with a sturdy red bill and a short crest which is slowly raised and lowered. It shows striking sexual dimorphism compared to most of its relatives. The adult male has a chestnut forehead, cheeks and nape, and a bright blue cap. The rest of the upperparts, wings and tail are black with blue bands. The breast, flanks and undertail are rufous, and the central belly is white.<p>The adult female is equally striking, with black-and-rufous-banded upperparts, and white underparts with some black bars on the chest and flanks. Young birds are duller than the adult of the same sex, have a brown and orange bill, and dusky barring on the underparts.<p>The call is a long whistled wheeeoo followed by 15 repetitions of chiwiu in 17 seconds, the second syllable gradually fading away. The banded kingfisher will respond to imitations of its call.
分类信息
The first formal description of the species was by the American naturalist Thomas Horsfield in 1821 under the binomial name Dacelo pulchella. The current genus Lacedo was introduced by the German ornithologist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1851. The word Lacedo is an anagram of Alcedo, the Latin word for kingfisher. The specific name pulchella is Latin for "very pretty". <p>There are three subspecies:
- 学名
- Lacedo pulchella
- 命名信息
- (Horsfield, 1821)
- 目
- Coraciiformes
- 科
- Halcyonidae
- 属
- Lacedo
分布与栖息地
The species occurs in Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Brunei. It is extinct in Singapore.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
This is a bird of lowland rainforest found up to 1,700 m in Brunei, but normally below 1100 m altitude in the rest of its range. Unlike most kingfishers, it does not need pools or streams in its territory.<p>The nest is a hole in a rotting tree trunk, or sometimes in the spherical nest of tree termites. Two to five white eggs are laid. In Thailand the eggs are laid between February and May.<p>The banded kingfisher hunts large insects and occasionally small lizards, usually taken in the trees, but sometimes from the ground.
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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其他鸟类
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Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant
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Small, slender, and long-tailed bird found only on islands along major rivers in the Amazon basin. Distinctive in its specialized habitat with yellow underparts and eyebrow, and conspicuous white patches in its wings and tail. Typically found in pairs, which are often hard to see as they skulk in dense, grassy thickets. Vocalizations include rich, inflected whistles and energetic, rattled churrs, often given as a duet. Birds from northeastern Brazil are now considered a different species, Bahia Wagtail-Tyrant.
Giant Pitta
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Extremely elusive and rarely-seen ground-dweller; listen instead for its haunting whistle. If seen, overall size and chunkiness alone should be sufficient to distinguish this species from other pittas. Male has bright blue wings and a grayish head with a thin black line curving downwards from behind the eye. Female is browner overall, with a blue rump and warm rufous-brown wings. Rare in lowland and foothill forests, particularly in swampy or riparian areas.
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