Hook-billed kingfisher

Hook-billed kingfisher
Painting by John Gerrard Keulemans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Genus: Melidora
Lesson, 1830
Species: M. macrorrhina
Binomial name
Melidora macrorrhina
(Lesson, 1827)

The hook-billed kingfisher (Melidora macrorrhina) is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is the only species within the genus Melidora.[2] It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[3]

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