The little paradise kingfisher (''Tanysiptera hydrocharis'') is a species of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
in the family
Alcedinidae.
It is found in the
Aru Islands
The Aru Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regency of Maluku Province, with a land area of . At the 2011 Census the Regency had a ...
and southern
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
.
Description
It is similar to the
common paradise kingfisher
The common paradise kingfisher (''Tanysiptera galatea''), also known as the Galatea paradise kingfisher and the racquet-tailed kingfisher, is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland fores ...
, albeit smaller. The juvenile is grey-brown with buff undersides. Its short tail is blue.
References
little paradise kingfisher
Birds of the Aru Islands
Birds of New Guinea
little paradise kingfisher
little paradise kingfisher
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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