Ceryle amazona = Chloroceryle amazona (Amazon kingfisher)

Query: Alcedinidae

Result: 35^th of 174

Subject:	Ceryle amazona = Chloroceryle amazona (Amazon kingfisher)
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Ceryle amazona
Date between 1700 and 1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Ceryle amazona
New Latin name Chloroceryle amazona
Common name Nederlands: Amazoneijsvogel
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ceryle_amazona_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16800269.tif

The Amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) is a species of "water kingfishers" in subfamily Cerylinae of family Alcedinidae. It is found in the lowlands of the American tropics from southern Mexico south through Central America to northern Argentina. The Amazon kingfisher usually hunts from a perch from which it dives into water for its prey. Occasionally it hovers before diving. Its diet is mostly fishes and crustaceans.

Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Cerylinae
Genus: Chloroceryle
Species: Chloroceryle amazona (Latham, 1790)

Alcedinidae
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