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Wildlife, Bird Photography Siddhartha Mukherjee Wildlife, Bird Photography Siddhartha Mukherjee

Stork-billed Kingfisher

A massive tree kingfisher widely but sparsely distributed in the tropical Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It sports a large scarlet bill, olive-brown head with dark green-blue upperparts & buff underparts. Its regular contact call is a loud laughing “ka-ka-ka” repeated 6-10 times. It prefers large streams, rivers, and the edges of large water bodies with vegetated banks.

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Wildlife, Bird Photography Siddhartha Mukherjee Wildlife, Bird Photography Siddhartha Mukherjee

Collared Kingfisher

The Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the white-collared kingfisher, black-masked kingfisher or mangrove kingfisher. It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia to Polynesia.

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