COMMON KINGFISHER

Photographed at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal march 2017

(*  885)                 COMMON KINGFISHER                   Albedo atthis 

NEPAL              58

Found in wetlands in open country. 16 cm. Locally common and widespread resident.

COMMON KINGFISHER

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

(885)              COMMON KINGFISHER                  Albedo atthis 

SINGAPORE        (10)        

Occurs in all kind of water bodies on migration, including open streams, canals, reservoir edges, ponds with reedy fringes and mangrove creeks, seldom in forest streams. 17 cm. Widespread across much of Eurasia with many races; occurs east to Soloman Islands; winter visitor to Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia.