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- Todiramphus gambieri
Identification
Buffy-cream head and neck, blue crown, cream-white forehead and broad, buffy neck-band, dusky blue ear-coverts, white chin and underparts, often with rufous band across upper breast, blue mantle, back, rump, wings and tail.
Critically endangered.
Distribution
Island of Niau, French Polynesia.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Semi open habitat, coconut plantations, gardens, and cultivated areas around villages.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects and small lizards.
It excavates nest-cavities in dead coconut trees.
