Stats

Lifespan

5-10 yrs

Size

Small

Diet

Carnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Solitary Or Pair

Biome

Tropical rainforest

Range

Oceania

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Rare

About

This kingfisher lives in the forests and mangroves of the South Pacific islands. It hunts by diving from branches to snatch crabs and lizards from the ground.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Coraciiformes

Family

Alcedinidae

Genus

Todiramphus

Species

Todiramphus sacer