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Amazon Kingfisher
Chloroceryle amazona
-21.596, -46.8613
Field Notes
Description:
The "Amazon Kingfisher" ("Chloroceryle amazona") resembles the Green Kingfisher ("Chloroceryle americana") which shares its range, but it is much larger than its relative, and three to four times as heavy. It is 29–30 cm long and weighs 110g. It has the typical kingfisher shape, with a short tail and long bill. It is oily green above, with a shaggy crest and a white collar around the neck. It lacks the white markings on the wings shown by Green Kingfisher ("Chloroceryle americana").
Habitat:
I found this specimen on a large river of creation of fishes, in a area of transition between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado
Notes:
Someone suggested to me to be an "Amazon Kingfisher." Then I discovered two species virtually identical ("Chloroceryle amazon" and "Chloroceryle american"). The only difference between these two species is the proportion of head and white patches in the remiges (found only in "C. american"). And for these two factors, I discovered that it was "C. amazona").
[NOTE of the NOTE: I'm not completely confident with it is an "Chloroceryle amazona "]
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