Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher
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| Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Halcyonidae |
| Genus: | Tanysiptera |
| Species: | T. sylvia |
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| Tanysiptera sylvia Gould, 1850 |
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The Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia) is a tree kingfisher. This type of kingfisher has a white tail and nests only in termite mounds.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Legge, S. and Heinsohn, R. "Kingfishers in paradise: the breeding biology of Tanysiptera sylvia at the Iron Range National Park, Cape York." The Australian Journal of Zoology. Vol. 49, No. 1, 85-98. 2001. Accessed 2009-05-25.
[edit] References
Legge S., Murphy S., Igag P. and Mack A.L. (2004) Territoriality and density of an Australian migrant, the Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, in the New Guinean non-breeding grounds. Emu 104: 15-20.
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