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Clearing up the Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

Subspecies humii , Thailand. Subspecies vitiensis , Fiji. Subspecies juliae , Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. For example only a single subspecies from Vanuatu was sampled. The original Collared Kingfisher, Todiramphus chloris, still spans across a mighty swathe of territory, from the Red Sea to New Guinea. Photo by author.

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

Subspecies humii , Thailand. Vanuatu has five subspecies, Fiji has three, and the far flung Solomon Islands have twelve. Subspecies juliae , Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. I saw this kingfisher on a trip to the largest island in Vanuatu, Espiritu Santo. Image by JJ Harrison (Creative Commons, Attribution Share-alike).

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