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Actenoides hombroni

(Blue-Capped Kingfisher)

Overview

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Vulnerable

Threat status

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Blue-Capped Kingfisher, Hombron's Kingfisher

Description

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Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology: It is an apparently sedentary inhabitant of primary forest and occasionally secondary and disturbed habitats across a wide altitudinal range (100-2,400 m ), although generally above 1,000 m. One anomalous report, of a bird collected in "low thick jungle covered daily by the sea ", appears to relate to mangroves . It is unobtrusive and tends to call prior to dawn.[1]


List of Habitats:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland 1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 12-Jun-2005

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Actenoides

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 18 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. bougainvillei (Moustached Kingfisher) · A. bougainvillei bougainvillei (Moustached Kingfisher) · A. bougainvillei excelsus · A. concretus (Chestnut-Collared Kingfisher) · A. concretus borneanus · A. concretus concretus (Chestnut-Collared Kingfisher) · A. concretus peristephes · A. hombroni (Blue-Capped Kingfisher) · A. lindsayi (Spotted Wood Kingfisher) · A. lindsayi lindsayi (Spotted Wood Kingfisher) · A. lindsayi moseleyi · A. monachus (Blue-Headed Wood Kingfisher) · A. monachus capucinus · A. monachus monachus (Blue-Headed Wood Kingfisher) · A. princeps (Bar-Headed Wood Kingfisher) · A. princeps erythrorhamphus · A. princeps princeps (Bar-Headed Wood Kingfisher) · A. princeps regalis

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009