Alcedo meningting
Date between 1700 and 1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica Old Latin name Alcedo meningting
New Latin name Alcedo meninting Common name Nederlands: Meningtingijsvogel
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The blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting) 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 (Alcedo atthis) which is found in more open habitats. The range of the blue-eared kingfishers stretches from India in the west, eastwards across Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, and further into Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia.
