LITTLE KINGFISHER

Photographed at Centenary Lakes, Caines,  April 2016

766      LITTLE KINGFISHER          Alcedo pusilla 

AUSTRALIA         (610)

Found in well-vegetated coastal creeks; streams in rainforests; tidal mangrove-lined creeks, swamps. 11.5-13 cm. Range: coastal Top End(NT); coastal n and ne Q, from Normanton-C. York to s. of Mackay. Sedentary; with local movements