Ceryle amazonia (Amazon green kingfisher) = Chloroceryle amazona (Amazon kingfisher)

Query: Water kingfisher

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Subject:	Ceryle amazonia (Amazon green kingfisher) = Chloroceryle amazona (Amazon kingfisher)
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Ceryle amazonia (Amazon green kingfisher) By John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912)
Date 1868-71.
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/19212389153
Author Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Full title A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers /
BHL Page URL https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43064586
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AA_monograph_of_the_Alcedinidae_%2819212389153%29.jpg

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)

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