This species is sometimes called the Small Blue Kingfisher but in Indonesia and parts of Asia that name refers to Alcedo atthis (Common Kingfisher).
Summer passage birds of the Suncheon Bay area include Nycticorax nycticorax, Bubulcus ibis, Egretta garzetta, Egretta alba modesta, Ardea cinerea, Charadrius dubius curonicus, Alcedo atthis bengalensis, Motacilla cinerea robusta, Motacilla alba and Acrocephalus arundinaceus.