Banded Kingfisher - Lacedo pulchella
( Horsfield, 1821 )

 

 

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Subspecies: Unknown
Est. World Population: U

CITES Status: NOT LISTED
IUCN Status: Least Concern
U.S. ESA Status: NOT LISTED

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Habitat:
Occurs in lowland evergreen forest with no need for pools or streams, typically in the undercanopy and mid-storey of forest (Fry and Fry 1999). Found from sea level up to about 1,100 m (del Hoyo et al. 2001). Nests in rotten trees or arboreal termitaria (Fry and Fry 1999).

Range:
Found widely through south east Asia, from south east and east Myanmar, throughout Thailand, Lao People's Democratic Republic and central Viet Nam, south throughout Cambodia, Malaysia, Sumatra (including the Riau Archipelago) and Java, Indonesia (del Hoyo et al. 2001). Fairly common in lowland evergreen forest across much of this range, but rare in Java and very rare in Sumatra (Fry and Fry 1999).

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