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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 ...
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 ...
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Kofiau paradise-kingfisher, Tanysiptera ellioti (E) Biak paradise-kingfisher, Tanysiptera riedelii (E) Numfor paradise-kingfisher, Tanysiptera carolinae (E) Red-breasted paradise-kingfisher, Tanysiptera nympha; Buff-breasted paradise-kingfisher, Tanysiptera sylvia
Blue-breasted kingfisher, Halcyon malimbica; Striped kingfisher, ... breast or lower parts, and several have buff flanks. As their name suggests, many species have a ...
Actenoides is a genus of kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae.. The genus Actenoides was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850. The type species is Hombron's kingfisher (Actenoides hombroni). [2]