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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.

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

Compare this to the next bird… Subspecies kalbansis, United Arab Emirates. Subspecies albicilla , Saipan, Micronesia. The supercilium (eyebrow) stops just above the eye (which the technical would describe as a supraloral stripe I guess), and the loral stripe through the eye is blue.

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