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The Amazon kingfisher is about 30 cm (12 in) long. Males weigh 98 to 121 g (3.5 to 4.3 oz) and females 125 to 140 g (4.4 to 4.9 oz). It has the typical kingfisher shape, with a shaggy crest and long heavy bill. The bill is black with some pale yellow at the base of the mandible and its legs and feet are dark gray. Adult males have dark bronzy ...
Amazon kingfisher; Amazonian antpitta; Amazonian antshrike; Amazonian barred woodcreeper; Amazonian black tyrant; Amazonian black-throated trogon; Amazonian elaenia; Amazonian grosbeak; Amazonian inezia; Amazonian motmot; Amazonian plain xenops; Amazonian pygmy owl; Amazonian scrub flycatcher; Amazonian streaked antwren; Amazonian trogon ...
Amazon kingfisher: Chloroceryle amazona: 500 000 – 4 999 999 [33] LC [33] [33] American pygmy kingfisher: Chloroceryle aenea: 500 000 – 4 999 999 [34]
The American pygmy kingfisher is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long. Males weigh 10 to 16 g (0.35 to 0.56 oz) and females 12 to 16 g (0.42 to 0.56 oz). It has the typical kingfisher shape, with a shaggy crest and long heavy bill. The bill is black with some pale yellow at the base of the mandible and its legs and feet are pinkish to light gray. Males of ...
The ringed kingfisher, Megaceryle torquata, a more distant relative, also occurs on the same rivers, but is twice as heavy as the Amazon kingfisher. Genetically, the largest species, C. amazona, is the most distantly related, while the medium-sized (but differently colored) C. americana and C. inda are sister species.
Amazon Kingfisher. You don’t want to be in the path of one of these fish because they can swim up to 25 mph. They cannot only swim fast, but they have a dagger-like bill, which they use for ...
The largest kingfisher in Africa is the giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima), which is 42 to 46 cm (17 to 18 in) in length and 255–426 g (9.0–15.0 oz) in weight. [17] The common Australian kingfisher, known as the laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae), is the heaviest species, with females reaching nearly 500 g (18 oz) in weight. [18]
Green kingfisher. Order: Coraciiformes Family: Alcedinidae. Kingfishers are medium-sized birds with large heads, long pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Ringed kingfisher, Megaceryle torquata; Amazon kingfisher, Chloroceryle amazona; American pygmy kingfisher, Chloroceryle aenea; Green kingfisher, Chloroceryle americana
