- Syma torotoro
Identification
20cm
- Orange head and neck
- Black nape patch
- White throat
- Black upper mantle
- Olive green back
- Greenish-blue upperwing with dark olive-black flight feathers
- Bluish-green rump
- Light orangey-grey underparts
- Blue tail
- Orangey-yellow bill in adults, dark grey in juveniles
Adult females have black crown patch
Distribution
New Guinea and Australia.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
- S. t. torotoro:
- Lowlands of New Guinea, western Papuan Islands, Yapen Islad and Aru Island
- S. t. flavirostris:
- Cape York Peninsula of north-eastern Australia (south to Weipa and Massy Creek)
- S. t. ochracea:
- D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago
Habitat
Rainforest, monsoon, mangrove and gallery forests and forest edges.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes large insects, which includes beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies and dragonflies. Also earthworms and lizards.
Breeding
They nest in an excavated chamber in a termite nest. The clutch consists of 3-4 white eggs.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Yellow-billed Kingfisher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-billed_Kingfisher
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