Showing posts with label Alcedo pusilla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alcedo pusilla. Show all posts

Saturday, April 2, 2016

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