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White-breasted Kingfisher

Halcyon smyrnensis

Photo by Pradeep Kumar
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

The White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) also known as the White-breasted Kingfisher or Smyrna Kingfisher, is a tree kingfisher, widely distributed in Eurasia from Bulgaria,Turkey, West Asia east through the Indian Subcontinent to the Philippines.

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