6-397: See text Javan blue-banded kingfisher Blue-eared kingfisher Blyth's kingfisher Half-collared kingfisher Shining-blue kingfisher Cerulean kingfisher Common kingfisher Alcedo is a genus of birds in the kingfisher subfamily Alcedininae . The genus was introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae . The type species is
12-429: Is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Alcedininae . It is endemic to and found throughout Java , but is thought to be extremely rare due to human pressures such as habitat destruction . Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest , subtropical or tropical mangrove forest , and rivers. Its population is estimated to be just 50-249 individuals, and is believed to be in decline. It
18-427: Is a small, rather dark kingfisher. The male is highly distinctive, with a broad blue-green band across a white chest. The female is very different, with an all-orange belly; distinguished from the common kingfisher ( A. atthis ) by an overall duller, darker coloration and the lack of a bright white-and-orange patch behind the eye, its call is piercing similar to the common kingfisher. The first formal description of
24-504: The Javan blue-banded kingfisher was by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1830. In his initial publication the binomial name was incorrectly printed as Alcedo cryzona but this was later corrected to Alcedo euryzona . The specific epithet euryzona is from the classical Greek eurus meaning "broad" and zōnē meaning "band" or "belt". This Coraciiformes -related article
30-492: The common kingfisher ( Alcedo ispida , now Alcedo atthis ispida ). Alcedo is the Latin for "kingfisher". The genus contains the following eight species: Unlike many kingfishers, all members of Alcedo are specialist fish-eaters. They all have some blue feathers on their upper-parts and most species have a black bill. Except for the cerulean kingfisher they all have some rufous in their plumage. The female generally has more red on
36-433: The lower mandible than the male. The smallest species is the cerulean kingfisher which is around 13 cm (5.1 in) in length; much the largest is Blyth's kingfisher with a length of 22 cm (8.7 in). [REDACTED] This Coraciiformes -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Javan blue-banded kingfisher The Javan blue-banded kingfisher ( Alcedo euryzona ),
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