Meninting Kingfisher
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Meninting Kingfisher ( Alcedo meninting ) |
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The meninting kingfisher ( Alcedo meninting ) is an Asian kingfisher .
features
The 17 cm long and 18 g heavy meninting kingfisher looks very similar to the European kingfisher , but the blue upper side and the orange lower side are more intensely colored. In addition, the ear covers of the adult bird are blue instead of orange.
Occurrence
Of up to ten subspecies, six are generally recognized:
- Alcedo m. meninting Horsfield , 1821 lives on Sumatra , Java , Bali , Lombok , Banggai , the Sula Islands and probably on Sulawesi , Nias and the Sulu Islands
- Alcedo m. verreauxii De La Berge , 1851 comes on the Malay Peninsula south of the 10th parallel, on Borneo , Palawan , Bangka , the Sulu Islands , the Pagi Islands , the Belitung Islands and the Riau Archipelago ago
- Alcedo m. scintillans Baker, ECS , 1919 lives in Burma and Thailand between the 10th and 16th parallel
- Alcedo m. phillipsi Baker, ECS , 1927 comes to Sri Lanka and parts of Kerala before
- Alcedo m. rufigaster Walden , 1873 lives on the Andamans
- The distribution area of Alcedo m. coltarti Baker, ECS , 1919 extends from Indochina to Nepal and eastern India
The bird lives on rivers and ponds in dense evergreen forests.
behavior
The Meninting Kingfisher is a solitary and shy bird that hunts from a perch by the water. It feeds on fish, crustaceans and insects, which it catches in flight.
Reproduction
The breeding cave is dug into a vertical sandbar and consists of a 55-60 cm long tunnel with a 5 cm diameter that ends in a 10-12 cm high and 12-14 cm wide chamber.
literature
- C. Hilary Fry , Kathie Fry: Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters, & Rollers. Princeton, New Jersey 1992, ISBN 0-691-08780-6 .
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Web links
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Alcedo meninting in the Internet Bird Collection
- Alcedo meninting inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved February 2, 2014.