10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

It’s a spectacular pigeon with long neck plumes and blue, green, and copper iridescence in its feathers (I mean, look at this bird ), and it lives on islands from the western Indian Ocean all the way out through northern Melanesia. Solomon Islanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans.

Solomon Islands 272

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2011

The Collared Kingfisher isn’t the most widespread kingfisher in the world (a distinction that would probably go to the Common Kingfisher or the Pied Kingfisher ), but it is close, ranging from the African coast of the Red Sea through to Tonga and American Samoa. Subspecies pealei , National Park of American Samoa.

Samoa 166

Samoa Vanuatu United Arab Emirates Tonga 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The Pacific Kingfisher ( Todiramphus sacer ) is one of three species identified in the South Pacific, the other two being from the Solomon Islands and I have no images of them (The Colonist Kingfisher and Melanesian Kingfisher ). Subspecies pealei , National Park of American Samoa. Subspecies juliae , Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu.

United Arab Emirates 173

United Arab Emirates Micronesia Tonga Vanuatu 173