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Kingfishers, Kookaburra (Coraciiformes)
Azure Kingfisher
Class: Aves Azure Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Alcedinidae
Genus: Ceyx
Species: azurea
The Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea is a small kingfisher (17-19 cm), in the river kingfisher family, Alcedinidae. It is found in Northern and Eastern Australia and Tasmania, as well as the lowlands of New Guinea and neighboring islands, and out to North Maluku and Romang.
 
Blue-winged Kookaburra
Class: Aves Blue-winged Kookaburra
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Dacelo
Species: leachii
The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii is one of the smaller species of kookaburras at around 40 cm long. It has a light-coloured eye, no dark eye-mask, and more blue wing feathers than other species in its genus.
 
Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher
Class: Aves Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Tanysiptera
Species: sylvia
The Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia) is a tree kingfisher.
 
Collared Kingfisher
Class: Aves Collared Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Todiramphus
Species: chloris
The Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the family Halcyonidae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the White-collared Kingfisher . It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia and Australasia to Polynesia. It is a very variable species with about 50 different subspecies.
 
Dollarbird
Class: Aves Dollarbird
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Coraciidae
Genus: Eurystomus
Species: orientalis
The Dollarbird, Eurystomus orientalis also known as the Dollar Roller is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the silver-dollar sized spots on its wings.
 
Forest Kingfisher
Class: Aves Forest Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Todiramphus
Species: macleayii
The Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii) is a species of bird in the Halcyonidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
 
Laughing Kookaburra
Class: Aves Laughing Kookaburra
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Dacelo
Species: novaeguineae
The Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, is a familiar Australian carnivorous bird of the Kingfisher family, well known for its call. Previously known as the Laughing Jackass it is now best known by its aboriginal name.
 
Little Kingfisher
Class: Aves Little Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Genus: Ceyx
Species: pusilla
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Rainbow Bee-eater
Class: Aves Rainbow Bee-eater
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Meropidae
Genus: Merops
Species: ornatus
The Rainbow Bee-eater, Merops ornatus is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is the only species found in Australia.
 
Red-backed Kingfisher
Class: Aves Red-backed Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Todiramphus
Species: pyrrhopygia
The Red-backed Kingfisher (Todiramphus pyrrhopygia) is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is endemic to Australia.
 
Sacred Kingfisher
Class: Aves Sacred Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Todiramphus
Species: sanctus
The Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) is a tree kingfisher found in the mangroves, forests, and river valleys of Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand (where the species is also called by its Māori name Kotare [1]), Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands. It has also occurred as a vagrant in Christmas Island (in the Indian Ocean) [2], Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Nauru. In Australia, it occurs in eucalypt forests, melaleuca forests, woodland and paperbark forests. In New Zealand, T.sanctus vagans shows altitudinal migration, with post-breeding movement from higher altitudes to the coast and also from forest to coast and open lands.
 
Yellow-billed Kingfisher
Class: Aves Yellow-billed Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes Least Concern
Staus: Least Concern
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Syma
Species: torotoro
The Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro) is a medium-sized (length 20 cm, wingspan 29 cm, weight 40 g) tree kingfisher. Colouring is distinctive: orange head and neck with black nape patch and white throat. Adult females also have black crown patch. Upper mantle blackish grading to olive green on back, blue-green on rump and blue tail. Upperwing dull green-blue with flight feathers dark olive-black. Underparts pale orange-grey. Bill orange-yellow in adults, dark grey in juveniles.
 
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