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Clearing up the Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

Subspecies kalbansis, United Arab Emirates. One new Pacific island form is the Mariana Kingfisher ( Todiramphus albicilla ) from the Mariana Islands in Micronesia. Saipan, Micronesia. Image by JJ Harrison (Creative Commons, Attribution Share-alike). Mariana Kingfisher. Pacific Kingfisher.

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

Compare this to the next bird… Subspecies kalbansis, United Arab Emirates. Vanuatu has five subspecies, Fiji has three, and the far flung Solomon Islands have twelve. It would be harder to get a stronger contrast to the dark headed Australian sordita than the form found on the Micronesian island of Saipan.

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