BLUE-EARRED KINGFISHER

Photographed at Dong Nai Nature Reserve, Vietnam, May 2024.

  (833*)                          BLUE-EARRED KINGFISHER                  Alcedo meninting

VIETNAM                 3

The blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting). The range of this species stretches from India in the west, eastwards across Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, and further into Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia. The usual habitat is pools or streams in dense evergreen forest and sometimes mangroves, situated under 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) of altitude.

BLACK BAZZA

 

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(*  911)                 BLACK BAZA              Aviceda leuphotes

CAMBODIA            3

Common migrant to secondary forests, forest edges, old plantations, scrub and occasionally parkland. 28-35 cm. Distribution: breeds in Himalayan foothills, S and NE India, S China and parts of mainland Southeast Asia; some northern populations are migratory, wintering in mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra.