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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

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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. Image by author.

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Clearing up the Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

Subspecies humii , Thailand. Subspecies pealei , National Park of American Samoa. Subspecies juliae , Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. For example only a single subspecies from Vanuatu was sampled. Subspecies vidali , Goa, India. Flickr User Sergey Yeliseev , (Creative Commons, Attribution, Non Commercial, Non-derivs).