Strip reading

Strip reading
	Stripe reading ( H. c.chelicuti ) in Kenya
Systematics
Class :	Birds (aves)
Order :	Rockers (Coraciiformes)
Family :	Kingfishers (Alcedinidae)
Subfamily :	Lieste (Halcyoninae)
Genre :	Halcyon
Type :	Strip reading
Scientific name
	Halcyon chelicuti
	( Stanley , 1814)

The striped lair ( Halcyon chelicuti ) is a bird of the kingfishers family (Alcedinidae). The species was first described by Edward Lord Stanley in the book Salt's Voyage to Abyssinia in 1814 as "Chelicut Kingfisher" Alaudo Chelicuti .

The name of the species chelicuti is derived from Chelicut in Ethiopia , the place where Stanley found the type specimen .

It is a very territorial bird that does not tolerate any conspecifics in its territory. Its territory can be up to 3 hectares and 100 large trees. He watches his territory from a treetop and chirps continuously into the afternoon.

features

The strip reads the subspecies H. c. chelicuti measures an average of 16 to 18 cm from the tip of the beak to the tail. Adult birds have a gray-brown upper plumage, the back and tail feathers are metallic blue. The belly and neck are white, the parting above the eyes is striped gray and white. The tip and upper beak are black, otherwise its beak is red-orange.

Occurrence

The species is in Africa to the south Sahara widespread. However , it is absent in dense forest areas (especially in the Congo Basin ). The strip read prefers open forest and bush landscapes, as well as the open savannah . There are two subspecies:

H. c. chelicuti
H. c. eremogiton ( Hartert , 1921) in the northern desert areas of central Mali to the White Nile and eastern Sudan . In southern Mali it is mixed with the other subspecies.

food

The striped crop feeds mainly on grasshoppers followed by other large insects. Small lizards, snakes and rodents are also occasionally caught. As a hide hunter, he ambushes his victims from a height of about 3 m.

literature

C. Hilary Fry , Kathie Fry: Kingfishers, Bee-Eaters, & Rollers. Princeton, New Jersey 1992, 1999, ISBN 0-691-04879-7 .

Web links

Commons : Stripes Read ( Halcyon chelicuti ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Halcyon chelicuti onthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
Duncan Butchart: Wildlife of the Okavango: Common Plants and Animals . New Holland Publishers, 2000, ISBN 1-86872-538-3 , pp. 59 .
Peter Lack: ABC African Checklist (nonpasserines). African Bird Club, 2006, accessed August 4, 2007 .
Rob Batchelder, Claes-Göran Cederlund, Erik Groth, Terje Gustavsen, Loakim Johansson, Terje, Uq Päl, Peter Schmidt, Rainer Winkler: Striped Kingfisher. In: GlobalTwitcher.com. Retrieved January 9, 2008 .
C. Hilary Fry, Kathie Fry, Alan Harris: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers . Christopher Helm, London 1992, ISBN 0-7136-8028-8 , pp. 154-155 .
Halcyon days. In: The Phrase finder. Retrieved January 11, 2008 .
Peter E. Lowther: Host List of Avian Brood Parasites - 4 - Piciformes; Indicatoridae. In: Brood Parasitism. The Field Museum, August 5, 2007, accessed January 9, 2008 .
Eugene M. McCarthy: Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World . Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-19-518323-1 , pp. 118 .
Alan P. Peterson, (Ed.): Zoological Nomenclature Resource. (Zoonomes) . 1999, Retrieved January 9, 2008.
Henry Salt: A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country . M. Carey Philadelphia and Wells & Lilley, Boston, 1816, p. 439 .
Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey: The Larger Illustrated Guide to Birds of Southern Africa . New Holland Publishers, 2007, ISBN 1-77007-243-8 , pp. 256-257 .
Dale A. Zimmerman, Donald A. Turner, David J. Pearson: Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, Field Guide Edition . Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-01022-6 , pp. 136-137, 388 .

Individual evidence

↑ Salt (1816)
↑ In the index on p432 the genus is given as Alcedo , but the description on p439 is headed, presumably in error, as Alaudo .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Fry (1992)
^ Sinclair and Hockey (2007). Statements with only this reference may refer only to southern Africa.
↑ Zimmerman, Turner, and Pearson (1999). Statements with only this reference may refer only to Kenya.
↑ Peterson (1999)
↑ Batchelder et al.
^ McCarthy (2006)

[Salt-1] Salt (1816)

[salt2-2] In the index on p432 the genus is given as Alcedo , but the description on p439 is headed, presumably in error, as Alaudo .

[Fry-3] Fry (1992)

[SH-4] Sinclair and Hockey (2007). Statements with only this reference may refer only to southern Africa.

[ZTP-5] Zimmerman, Turner, and Pearson (1999). Statements with only this reference may refer only to Kenya.

[6] Peterson (1999)

[7] Batchelder et al.

[8] McCarthy (2006)