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.

BLUE-EARRED KINGFISHER

Subspecies phillipsi, March 2017

(*  833)                 BLUE-EARRED KINGFISHER                  Alcedo meninting

SRI LANKA           115

Found near shady forest streams. 16 cm. Very rare breeding resident locally in dry lowlands, and possibly really visits other areas.

BLUE-EARED KINGFISHER

Taken on a very foggy day on the river in Chitwan, Nepal

331          BLUE-EARED KINGFISHER           Alcedo meninting

Nepal      (8)

Ranges across Asia from Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, including Malaysia.. Found in dense shaded forests, hunting in small streams. 16 cm.