STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER

Subspecies capensis, photographed March 2017

(*  916)                     STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER             Pelargopsis capensis

SRI LANKA             66

Found on forested banks of rivers and streams, lakes and paddy fields adjoining wooded areas. 38 cm. Uncommon breeding resident from lowlands up to lower hills.

STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER

Photographed at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

(*  916)               STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER              Pelargopsis capensis

NEPAL               69

Found over shaded pools, slow-moving rivers and streams in well-wooded country. 35 cm. Locally fairly common and quiet well spread resident, particularly in south.

STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

916                 STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER             Pelargopsis capensis

SINGAPORE               (64)

Occurs along mangrove creeks, ponds and reservoirs with forest fringes and suitably large water bodies in secondary scrub and old plantations. 37 cm. Distribution: Indian sub-continent, mainland Southeast Asia, Thai-Malay Peninsula, Greater Sundas east to Philippines and Sulawesi.