Amazon Kingfisher - Chloroceryle amazona

Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)
Brazilian name: martim-pescador-verde

Brazil

The first three photos are of a female. The male in the fourth photo shows his broad rufous breast band.

The Amazon Kingfisher is the largest green kingfisher in South America.

The Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) is much smaller and has obvious white spots and bars on the wings.

Like the Ringed Kingfisher (Ceryle torquata), it prefers open, sunlit streams and bodies of water while the other smaller Kingfishers are found more in small streams with lots of vegetation for cover.

The fourth photo shows a male Amazon Kingfisher hovering about 8 metres above the surface of the sea and about 50 metres off-shore at Parati.

There are illustrations in HBW, Volume 6, Pages 159 and 242; and in Hilty & Brown, Plate 19.

Amazon Kingfisher, Parati, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2002 - click for a larger image

Female Amazon Kingfisher, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for a larger image

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