# Collared Kingfisher

*Todiramphus chloris*

Despite being a kingfisher, they often hunt far from water, snatching insects and lizards from land-based perches.

- **Taxonomy:** Animalia › Chordata › Aves › Coraciiformes › Alcedinidae › Todiramphus
- **IUCN Red List status:** Least Concern
- **Population trend:** stable
- **Biome:** wetland
- **Habitat:** Mangrove forests, coastal gardens, beaches, and coconut groves.
- **Diet:** Crustaceans (especially crabs), small fish, insects, and occasionally small lizards or frogs.
- **Range:** Southeast Asia, Australia, Red Sea coasts, Indian Subcontinent
- **Size:** 22-29 cm in length; 50-100 grams
- **Lifespan:** 5-10 years
- **Active:** diurnal
- **Threats:** Destruction of mangrove ecosystems, water pollution, and coastal development.
- **Safe to approach?:** Harmless and shy. Best viewed through binoculars from at least 15 meters away. If the bird stops hunting to watch you or emits a loud alarm call, you are too close. Do not approach nesting sites in termite mounds or hollow trees.

## About

The collared kingfisher ( Todiramphus chloris ) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the white-collared kingfisher or mangrove kingfisher . It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia to Polynesia. A number of subspecies and subspecies groups have been split from this species including the Pacific kingfisher, the islet kingfisher, the Torresian kingfisher, the Mariana kingfisher, and the Melanesian kingfisher.

## Sources

- Plate: https://gaia-dex.com/species/c548cd85-b612-432e-b726-c0d7bf3b0b94
- iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/472078
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todiramphus chloris
- Conservation status: IUCN Red List category, as recorded by Gaia-Dex
- Photo: https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/365337914/medium.jpeg (no rights reserved, CC0, via iNaturalist)

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