ALCEDINIDAE
BLACK-BACKED KINGFISHER
Location : Pulau Pinang
Date : 7 October 202112.5–14 cm Adult erithacus: Very small size, bright red bill, rufous,
lilac and yellowish plumage with blackish-blue mantle and
scapulars, and dark wings. Has blue patches on forehead and
to rear of ear-coverts. Juvenile: Underparts duller, more
whitish, often with brownish wash across breast; bill duller.
VOICE Sharp metallic piping, weaker and higher-pitched than
Blue-eared; usually given in flight. Contact calls include weak,
shrill tit-sreet and tit-tit. HABITAT & BEHAVIOUR Vicinity of
small streams and pools in broadleaved evergreen forest, sometimes gardens and mangroves on migration; up to 915 m.
Flashes through forest at remarkable speed. RANGE Un R Myanmar (except W,E), Thailand (except C and southern S), Laos, E
Tonkin, N,C Annam, Cochinchina (likely to be BV only to some
northern areas). Un/fc WV S Thailand, Pen Malaysia, Singapore.
Un PM S Myanmar, C Thailand, Pen Malaysia, Singapore. Rc
(status?) Cambodia.
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