Blue-winged Kookaburra
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| Dacelo leachii Vigors & Horsfield, 1826 |
The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii is a smaller species of kookaburras at around 40 cm long. It has a light-coloured eye, no dark eye-mask, and many more blue wing feathers.
The Blue-winged Kookaburra is distributed to southern New Guinea and the moister parts of northern Australia, from southern Queensland across the Top End, and as far down the Western Australian coast as the Shark Bay area.
The scientific name commemorates the British zoologist William Elford Leach.
Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Blue-winged Kookabura is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Dacelo leachii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
