Sunday, April 22, 2012

>Alcedo meninting (Blue-eared Kingfisher)

Blue-eared Kingfisher

Blue-eared Kingfisher
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Coraciiformes
Family:Alcedinidae
Genus:Alcedo
Species:A. meninting
Binomial name
Alcedo meninting
Horsfield, 1821
The Blue-eared Kingfisher,Alcedo meninting, is found in south and southeast Asia. This is a small kingfisher almost identical to the Common Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis. The Blue-eared Kingfisher is distinguished from the Common Kingfisher by blue ear coverts, darker and more intense cobalt-blue upperparts with richer rufous under parts.
AlcedoMeninting.jpg
The juvenile Blue-eared Kingfisher has similar rufous ear-coverts like the Common Kingfisher; but it usually shows some mottling on the throat and upper breast which disappears when the bird reaches adulthood.
The average length of this kingfisher is 16 cm. It is found near pools and streams in dense evergreen forest, situated under 1000m of altitude.

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