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unusual facts about Madagascar Pygmy-kingfisher



Amazon Kingfisher

The Amazon Kingfisher resembles the Green Kingfisher which shares its range, but it is much larger than its relative, and three to four times as heavy.

American green kingfisher

The Ringed Kingfisher, Megaceryle torquata, a more distant relative, also occurs on the same rivers, but is twice as heavy as the Amazon Kingfisher.

Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve

Among the colourful family of kingfishers, who preferably occur near open water, the Woodland Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis), Swallow-tailed Bee-eater (Merops hirundineus), Giant Kingfisher (Ceryle maxima), Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata) and the Blue-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica) are notable.

Beaudesert Kingfishers

The club's emblem of the Kingfisher was adopted in 1973 and it currently fields teams in all junior grades, from under 8's to under 15's.

Belted Kingfisher

The Belted Kingfisher's closest living relative is the Ringed Kingfisher (M. torquata), and these two in all probability originated from an African Megaceryle which colonized the Americas.

Beverley Nambozo

Many travel articles on visits to Mexico, Lamu, Kenya, Egypt, Lake Mburo National Park, Kingfisher Resort, Queen Elizabeth National Park, and other places have been published in UGPulse and the New Vision newspaper.

Biak Paradise Kingfisher

The Biak Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera riedelii) is a tree kingfisher endemic to the Indonesian island Biak.

Cerulean Kingfisher

This species is sometimes called the Small Blue Kingfisher but in Indonesia and parts of Asia that name refers to Alcedo atthis (Common Kingfisher).

Co-operative Retail Services

In 1999, the society sold ten of these properties to Kingfisher, for conversion into Big W (Woolworth) and B&Q stores.

Deborah Chancellor

Chancellor’s non-fiction ranges from historical biography to topical issues (Moving to Britain, Franklin Watts, 2008) to matters of general interest (Everything You Need to Know, Kingfisher, 2007).

Derek Bellotti

Bellotti is currently managing director of Kingfisher Print and Design, a print firm based in Dartington.

Eastern Miombo woodlands

The region is also rich in bird life, including the near-endemic Stierling's Woodpecker as well as other species like vultures, fish eagle, kingfisher, yellow billed stork and plover.

Forest Kingfisher

The Forest Kingfisher is native to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Australia, where it is found on or near the Australian Coastline from Port Stephens in New South Wales northwards to Cape York and westwards across the Top End.

Fowlmead Country Park

There is already an abundance of wildlife (including Short-eared Owl, Marsh Harrier, Kingfisher and various species of dragonflies ), which can be seen within the park's developing natural habitats, (beyond the cyclists middle section) including a lake.

Googie Withers

Withers starred in a number of stage plays, including Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Desire of the Moth, The First 400 Years (with Keith Michell), Beekman Place (for which she also designed the set), The Kingfisher, Stardust, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Wilde's An Ideal Husband for the Melbourne Theatre Company; both productions toured Australia.

Green-and-rufous Kingfisher

The Green-and-rufous Kingfisher resembles the American Pygmy Kingfisher, which shares its range, but it is much larger than its relative, and four times as heavy.

Grey-headed Kingfisher

In appearance very like the Brown-hooded Kingfisher but with a red rather than red and black bill and similar to the Woodland Kingfisher, but the Woodland Kingfisher lacks the chestnut belly and has greater coverage of cyan feathers on the back.

Hanhe Aviation UAV

Kingfisher (Cui-Niao or Cuiniao, 翠鸟) UAV developed by Hanhe Aviation is a gasoline-powered unmanned helicopter in conventional helicopter layout with a pair of skids as landing gear, and it is specifically developed for aerial surveillance missions.

Hochland Park

Approximately a third of them are English (Goshawk Street, Kingfisher Road), Afrikaans (Hamerkopweg, Kestrell Straat), and German (Raben Road, Falkenweg), respectively.

Jatinga

This phenomenon is not confined to a single species, with Tiger Bittern, Black Bittern, Little Egret, Pond Heron, Indian Pitta and Kingfishers all being affected.

Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open

The Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open (known as the Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts.

Kingfisher Shopping Centre

These Mosaics are located in the part of the Kingfisher known as Milward Square, which was named in honour of Henry Milward & Sons aka Milwards Needles, Redditch's oldest and largest Needle manufacturer.

Kingfisher Shopping Centre was opened in 1976 by the then Prime Minister James Callaghan and now forms the town's primary retail centre.

The Kingfisher Shopping Centre was acquired for £130m in May 2012, in a joint venture between Capital & Regional Plc and Oaktree Capital Management.

Kingfisher Xpress

Kingfisher Xpress was a new Door-to-Door cargo delivery service from Kingfisher Airlines.

Longipterygidae

Because their long jaws tipped with large, often curved teeth are usually considered an adaptation for catching and eating fish, it is likely that they were similar in ecology to modern Kingfishers.

No Ordinary Morning / Halcyon

"Halcyon" refers to Halcyon, a genus of kingfishers (specifically, those of the Halcyonidae family) in scientific classification, as is evident by the opening moments of the song, where a kingfisher's call is heard before the tempo starts to pick up and the song begins.

North Sulawesi

The location is habitat for Rhyticeros cassidix, Kingfisher, Burung Kakatua putih, Macaca nigra, Kuskus (Phalanger celebensis), Rusa (Cervus timorensis), etc.

With white sandy beach tourists can also see Monyet hitam (Macaca nigra), Tangkasi (Tarsius spectrum), Burung Rangkong (Rhyticeros cassidix) and Burung Rajaudang (Kingfisher).

Omana Regional Park

Kereru, tui (bird) which appears almost black except for a white tuft under its chin, fantail, Grey Warbler, Red-billed Gull, Southern Black-backed Gull (see Kelp Gull), South Island Pied Oystercatcher and the closely related Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor), Pied Shag, Kingfisher, and White-faced Heron.

Pelargopsis

Great-billed Kingfisher, Black-billed Kingfisher or Celebes Stork-billed Kingfisher, Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

Richard Platt

Since then, Richard Platt has gone on to complete some 60 more books for UK publishers Oxford University Press, Kingfisher, Dorling Kindersley and Walker Books (Candlewick Press in the U.S.).

River Almond, Lothian

There is a good array of birds to be seen around the River banks, including Dippers, Kingfishers and Grey Herons, with increasing numbers of Otter being reported.

River kingfishers

However, molecular analysis suggests that the Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher is most closely related to the Malachite Kingfisher, and that the present arrangement into Alcedo and Ceyx may need to be reviewed as it seems not to reflect the actual relationships (for example, the Azure Kingfisher is closer to Ceyx erithacus).

The sexes may be identical, as with Bismarck Kingfisher, but most species show some sexual dimorphism, ranging from a different bill colour as with Common Kingfisher to a completely different appearance.

Selenter See

It is an important breeding, moulting and resting area for numerous birds including the Kingfisher, Bittern, Whooper Swan, Goosander, Great Crested Grebe, Crane and Sea Eagle.

Seven Acres Country Park, Bolton

There are over 70 different kinds of bird, including Kingfisher, Dipper, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Song Thrush, Bullfinch, Grey Heron and Blackcap.

Shikara

While riding on Shikara often observe white breasted Kingfishers (Halycon smyrnensis), large striking birds with robust bills perched on the branches of willow trees.

Softbill

Carnivorous – those who feed on small mammals, birds or other vertebrates (e.g., Kingfishers, Rollers)

Strumpshaw Fen RSPB reserve

Kingfisher present all year and carrying fish back to nests in spring and summer.

Tanjung Puting

The park also features many reptiles, including crocodiles, monitor lizards, and pythons, birds, including hornbills and kingfishers, and insects, such as the giant Bornean butterfly.

Tanzawa Mountains

There are also hundreds of species of birds such as Kingfisher.

Thornaby TMD

The logo applied to the sides of Thornaby locomotives was a white Kingfisher.

Vanuatu Kingfisher

The only other kingfisher in Vanuatu is the Collared Kingfisher which has paler blue-green upperparts, whiter underparts and a buff stripe above the eye.

:The name Chestnut-bellied Kingfisher can also refer to the Grey-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) of Africa.

Venket Ram

Venket Ram, has recently started an annual calendar inspired by other brands such as Dabboo Ratnani and Kingfisher, and began photography for it 2010.

Water kingfisher

The Belted Kingfisher, M. alcyon, is the only kingfisher that is widespread in North America, though M. torquata may be found as far north as Texas and Arizona.

Not longer than 5 million years ago - possibly as recently as 2.9 million years ago -, an Old World giant kingfisher became the ancestor of the Belted and Ringed Kingfishers, and later, another species related to the Pied Kingfisher became the ancestor of the Chloroceryle green kingfishers after colonizing the Americas.


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