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Clearing up the Collared Kingfishers

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Subspecies humii , Thailand. Subspecies kalbansis, United Arab Emirates. Subspecies vidali , Goa, India. Flickr User Sergey Yeliseev , (Creative Commons, Attribution, Non Commercial, Non-derivs). Image by JJ Harrison (Creative Commons, Attribution Share-alike). Mariana Kingfisher.

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2011

Subspecies humii , Thailand. Compare this to the next bird… Subspecies kalbansis, United Arab Emirates. Across their range there are a large number of subspecies, 49 according to the Handbook of the Birds of the World, but as we shall see there is some disagreement about both subspecies and species limits.

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