Summary 5 The Blue-eared Kingfisher (Alcedo meninting) is found in Asia, ranging across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.It is found mainly in dense shaded forests where it hunts in small streams.
It is darker crowned, with darker rufous underparts and lacking the rufous ear stripe of the Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) which is found in more open habitats.
I managed to photograph it at the last light of the day after waiting for it for a month. Nesting of the Blue-eared Kingfisher in Singapore by BESG | posted in: Kingfishers , Nesting | 6 “The Blue-eared Kingfisher ( Alcedo meninting ) is a rare resident in local reserves. Male has all black bill while female has reddish lower mandible. Behaviour/Ecology: Diet consists mostly of fish but occasionally hunts for lizard, frog and insects. Blue-eared Kingfisher (Alcedo meninting) bird sounds free on dibird.com. ABOUT Habitat : Riverine backwater.
Habitat : Riverine backwater.
It is darker crowned, with darker rufous underparts and lacking the rufous ear stripe of the common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) which is found in more open habitats.
The blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting) is found in Asia, ranging across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.It is found mainly in dense shaded forests where it hunts in small streams. Photo Credit: Francis Yap
Male Blue-eared Kingfisher at Pekan Quarry, Ubin. Blue-eared Kingfisher Alcedo meninting Location : Central forests, Singapore Habitat : Freshwater swamp forest. Blue-eared Kingfisher Alcedo meninting Location : Central forests, Singapore Habitat : Freshwater swamp forest. The recent Blue-eared Kingfisher sighting at the zoo in Singapore was not an exception. The Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher is the smallest of our kingfishers, and is a passage migrant here – one population (also known as the Black-backed Kingfisher) breeds from northeast India and southern China to Thailand and Indochina, and migrates south for the winter, with some birds stopping to spend a few days in Singapore on their annual journeys between their breeding and wintering grounds. Blue-eared Kingfisher bird photo call and song/ Alcedo meninting (Alcedo meninting) Blue-eared kingfisher, Alcedo meninting, also known as the blue-cheeked kingfisher, deep-blue kingfisher, Ceylon blue-eared kingfisher or the Malaysian kingfisher, photographed in the … Fig 3 : Blue-eared Kingfisher Alcedo meninting Location : Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo. Photo Credit: Francis Yap
Habitat: Various inland and coastal wetlands. Stork-billed Kingfisher Then there's the smallest one - the Blue-eared Kingfisher - that is from the river kingfisher family group.These deep blue jewels are about the size of a sparrow and they live within our nature reserves. Fig 3 : Blue-eared Kingfisher Alcedo meninting Location : Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo.