Blue-eared Kingfisher

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When to see the Blue-eared Kingfisher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-eared Kingfisher

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Sri Lanka.

About the Blue-eared Kingfisher

The blue-eared kingfisher is found in Asia, ranging across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is found mainly in dense shaded forests where it hunts in small streams. It is darker crowned, with darker rufous underparts and lacking the rufous ear stripe of the common kingfisher which is found in more open habitats. A number of subspecies have been described that differ in measurement and colour shade. Adult males have an all dark bill while females have a reddish lower mandible.

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Easily confused with

Half-collared KingfisherAlcedo semitorquataThe half-collared kingfisher is a medium-sized kingfisher. Cerulean KingfisherAlcedo coerulescensThe cerulean kingfisher is a small kingfisher with a length of 13 cm (5.1 in). Shining-blue KingfisherAlcedo quadribrachysThe shining-blue kingfisher is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae.

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