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Blue-eared Kingfisher
Blue-eared Kingfisher
Alcedo meninting
Aves
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
6-10 yrs
Size
Small
Diet
Carnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Solitary
Biome
Tropical rainforest
Range
Southeast Asia
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Speed
Status
Uncommon

About

The blue-eared kingfisher lives in dense shaded forests across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, where it hunts in small streams. Adult males have an all-dark bill while females have a reddish lower mandible.

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
Alcedo
Species
Alcedo meninting