CORACIIFORMESCORACIIFORMES| Japan 1993 | Uganda 1991 | Singapore 2011 | Australia 1980 | Japan 1993 |
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| Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis (Alcedinidae) |
Malachite Kingfisher Alcedo cristata (Alcedinidae) |
White-Collared Kingfisher Todirhamphus chloris (Alcedinidae) |
Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera sylvia (Alcedinidae) |
Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris (Alcedinidae) |
| Japan 1992 | Australia 1999 | Australia 1993 |
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| Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda (Alcedinidae) |
Sacred Kingfisher Halcyon sancta (Alcedinidae) |
Blue-winged Kookaburra Dacelo leachii (Alcedinidae) |
| Mali 1965 | Australia 1980 | Honduras 1987 | Nicaragua 1981 |
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| Abyssinian Ground-hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus (Bucorvidae) |
Rainbow Bee-eater Merops ornatus (Meropidae) |
Turquoise-browed Motmot Eumomota superciliosa (Motmotidae) |
Blue-crowned Motmot Momotus momota (Motmotidae) |
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| Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea (Alcedinidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis (Alcedinidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris (Alcedinidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae (Alcedinidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda (Alcedinidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
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| Micronesian Kingfisher Halcyon cinnamomina (Alcedinidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
Miyako Kingfisher Halcyon miyakoensis (Alcedinidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
Great Hornbill Buceros bicornis (Bucorvidae) (CORACIIFORMES) |
Kingfisher lives mainly in a waterside. The bill is straight and remains still in a stake and a branch keenly and it makes nose dive when it find the fish swimming on the surface of the water and arrest, and there is a habit to come back to the again original branch.
The ruddy kingfisher is generally large size and lives in the forest and eats a frog, a lizard, a fresh water crab, land products shellfish. It is blue-winged kookaburra of the Australian product to be famous for this friend. With size of a small crow, a cry resembles the human laughter with a brown spotted quiet bird. Because it calls in a big voice in forest late in the daybreak and the evening, it is said when it is as a substitute for a thing of a clock for the Bushman of the Australian aborigine.
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