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- Chloroceryle aenea
[edit] Identification
13 cm.
- Oily green upperparts
- Yellow-orange collar
- Rufous underparts
- White belly
Female: has a narrow green breast band
Young birds resemble the adults, but have paler rufous underparts, no breast band, and speckled wings and flanks.
Female
Photo by
rkaPhotographed: Cacandee,
Trinidad, 2007
[edit] Distribution
Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Chiapas, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
[edit] Taxonomy
Polytypic
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[edit] Habitat
Woodland streams. Mangroves and wetlands
[edit] Behaviour
[edit] Breeding
The unlined nest is in a horizontal tunnel usually into a river bank; sometimes into an earth mound or termite nest. Three or four white eggs are laid.
[edit] Vocalisation
Call: a weak tik or stony cht cht.
[edit] References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
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