Ruddy Kingfisher

Fire Reads (Halcyon coromanda )

The fire Reads (Halcyon coromanda ) is a living in Japan, Taiwan and Southeast Asia kingfisher.

Features

The fire Reads is about 25 inches tall and has a faded purple to rust-colored plumage, a silvery blue body and a red beak and red feet.

Occurrence

Its distribution extends from Japan, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Habitat

In the Himalayas, north-east China and Japan the fire Reads occurs at or near mountain streams, in dense, evergreen forests up to an altitude of 1,500 m, on. In the tropics, it remains in wooded coastal regions and especially near mangroves and the Nipapalme.

Subspecies

Nine subspecies are known:

  • H. c. coromanda Distribution: Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, West Bengal, Bangladesh, northern Burma and southwest China, east to Macao. Wintering on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java
  • Appearance: Washout purple to rust-colored plumage, silvery blue hull, red beak and red feet.
  • Distribution: Andaman Islands, south-west Burma
  • Appearance: dark rust-colored top with light violet gloss, bottom darker than H. c. mizorhina, breast with violet washed out. Prolonged beak
  • Distribution: Japan, from Hokkaido to about Kyoto, South Korea and northeast China, mainly in the coastal lowlands of Liaoning, Hopei and Shantung. Migratory birds occur in eastern China, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, Philippines, Sulawesi and Borneo rarely on
  • Appearance: underside paler than Hccoromanda and less purple, blue parts of the fuselage, reduced to a narrow strip. Bottom buff and much paler than H. c. coromanda. Beak slender, longer wings.
  • Distribution: Ryukyu Islands, east of Taiwan. Wintering in the Philippines, south of the Talaud Islands
  • Appearance: top much darker and violet. Bottom darker and deeper beak base as H. c. coromanda, long wings
  • Distribution: From about 10 ° north of the Malay Peninsula south to Singapore, the Riau Islands, Sumatra, Mentawai Islands, Bangka Belitung and West Java and Borneo
  • Appearance: dark top, bottom much darker than Hccoromanda, chestnut -colored. Crown, mantle and breast washed with shiny and purple. Greater silver fuselage. Short wings.
  • Distribution: Palawan and Tawi - Tawi (southwest Philippines)
  • Appearance: As H. c. minor, but slightly darker upper and lower part. Almost plum -colored coat and chest
  • Distribution: Sulawesi and the offshore islands of Sangihe Islands, Buton and Muna
  • Appearance: How H.c.minor, but not so dark. Hull pale blue shimmering. Long wings, long beak, short tail
  • Distribution: Peleng Island, one of the Banggai Islands (Indonesia )
  • Appearance: As H. c. rufa, with silver body
  • Distribution: Sula Islands, east of Peleng
  • Appearance: As H. c. coromanda with more purple and long wings and a long beak
Genus John Latham (ornithologist) Riau Archipelago Bangka Island
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