Tuamotu Kingfisher

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When to see the Tuamotu Kingfisher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Tuamotu Kingfisher

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Tuamotu Kingfisher

The Mangareva kingfisher, also known as Tuamotu kingfisher, is a species of kingfisher in the family Alcedinidae, endemic to Niau in French Polynesia. It is classified as critically endangered.

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Easily confused with

Mewing KingfisherTodiramphus ruficollarisThe mewing kingfisher is 22 cm (8.7 in) in length, with blue-green forehead and crown; light turquoise ear-coverts; orange-buff superciliary buff, nape, and upper mantle; deep turquoise back, rump, and uppertail-coverts; deep blue tail (underside blackish); entirely white underparts (except for orange-buff across upper chest); mostly black bill and iris; mostly black legs with light yellow soles. Marquesan KingfisherTodiramphus godeffroyiThis unique bird is approximately 22 cm (9 in) tall with a buff triangle on its upper back. Islet KingfisherTodiramphus colonusThe islet kingfisher is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae.