Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher

Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Tanysiptera
Species: T. sylvia
Binomial name
Tanysiptera sylvia
Gould, 1850

The Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia) is a tree kingfisher. This type of kingfisher has a white tail and nests only in termite mounds.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Legge, S. and Heinsohn, R. "Kingfishers in paradise: the breeding biology of Tanysiptera sylvia at the Iron Range National Park, Cape York." The Australian Journal of Zoology. Vol. 49, No. 1, 85-98. 2001. Accessed 2009-05-25.

References

Legge S., Murphy S., Igag P. and Mack A.L. (2004) Territoriality and density of an Australian migrant, the Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, in the New Guinean non-breeding grounds. Emu 104: 15-20.