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Clearing up the Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

Subspecies humii , Thailand. Subspecies kalbansis, United Arab Emirates. Subspecies pealei , National Park of American Samoa. Subspecies vidali , Goa, India. Flickr User Sergey Yeliseev , (Creative Commons, Attribution, Non Commercial, Non-derivs). Image by JJ Harrison (Creative Commons, Attribution Share-alike).

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

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 humii , Thailand. Bryan Harry, USNPS.

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