Alternative name: Hombron's Kingfisher,
Blue-capped Wood-Kingfisher
- Actenoides hombroni
Identification
27 cm (10½ in)
Male
- Bright blue cap and moustache
- Rufous-orange cheeks and underparts
- Off-white throat
- Rufous-orange underparts
- Blue-green upperparts
- Small buff spots on scapulars and wing-coverts
- Bright blue rump and tail
- Bright red bill
Female: drabber cap and moustache, green upperparts, large buff spots.
Distribution
Forests of Mindanao, southern Philippines.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
They have a preference for undisturbed, mossy montane and rainforests, sometimes secondary forests are used.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of large insects such as grasshoppers, locusts and beetles, including their larvae, with the addition of snails and frogs too.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Aug 2018)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Blue-capped Kingfisher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue-capped_Kingfisher
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
