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The buff-breasted paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia) is a bird in the tree kingfisher subfamily, Halcyoninae. It is native to Australia and New Guinea . It migrates in November from New Guinea to its breeding grounds in the rainforest of North Queensland , Australia.
The buff-breasted paradise kingfisher, which also occurs in the extreme northeast of Australia, moves to New Guinea in the winter half-year. The common paradise kingfisher has the biggest spread among the paradisiacis birds. It occurs in 15 subspecies on New Guinea and islands of the Moluccas and the Louisiade Archipelago.
Ruddy kingfisher: east and southeast Asia. Halcyon smyrnensis: White-breasted kingfisher: from the Sinai east through the Indian subcontinent to China and Taiwan. Halcyon gularis: Brown-breasted kingfisher: the Philippines Halcyon cyanoventris: Javan kingfisher: Java and Bali Halcyon badia: Chocolate-backed kingfisher: western Sub-Saharan ...
This is a large kingfisher, 25 cm in length. The adult has a bright blue head, back, wing panel and tail. Its underparts are white, but it has a blue breast band. The shoulders are black. The flight of the blue-breasted kingfisher is rapid and direct. The large bill has a red upper mandible and black lower mandible. The legs are bright red.
The adult scaly-breasted kingfisher measures about 24 cm (9 in) in length. It has a blue head and reddish-brown collar, and the female has a buff-coloured forehead. The back is dark brown scalloped with buff. The underparts are plain whitish-buff in the male and are barred with darker colour in the female.
The sacred kingfisher is mostly blue-green to turquoise above with white underparts and collar feathers, a black mask and buff lores.Both sexes are similar, but females are usually greener, duller and less buff beneath, and juveniles have buff or mottled brown edges on the collar, underparts and upper-wing coverts.
The black-capped paradise kingfisher has sometimes been considered as a subspecies as the buff-breasted paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia). [4] [5] There are two subspecies: [6] T. n. leucura Neumann, 1915 – Umboi Island in the Bismarck Archipelago; T. n. nigriceps Sclater, PL, 1877 – New Britain and Duke of York Island in the ...
The grey-headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) is a species of kingfisher that has a wide distribution from the Cape Verde Islands off the north-west coast of Africa to Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, east to Ethiopia, Somalia and southern Arabia and south to South Africa.