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Glittering Kingfisher (Caridonax fulgidus)

Glittering Kingfisher
Photo: Abdul Azis Gizan from indonesia, indonesia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Glittering Kingfisher

The white-rumped kingfisher or glittering kingfisher (Caridonax fulgidus) is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is monotypic within the genus Caridonax. It is endemic to Indonesia, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is dark blue all over, except its underside and rump, which are white. It has a red bill and feet. Its eyes are dark brown.

Source: White-rumped kingfisher on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Glittering Kingfisher. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:15) via xeno-canto.org/1174791, licensed CC BY — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Indonesia · xeno-canto lists 15 recordings for this species in total.