Biak paradise kingfisher

Biak paradise kingfisher
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Halcyonidae
Genus: Tanysiptera
Species: T. riedelii
Binomial name
Tanysiptera riedelii
Verreaux, 1866

The Biak paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera riedelii) is a tree kingfisher endemic to the Indonesian island Biak.

Description

It has a blue-gray back with a white belly and tail streamers and a reddish beak

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