Basic Information
Scientific classification
- Chinese name: Spotted Jade
- Scientific name: Actenoides lindsayi, Spotted wood kingfisher
- Classification: Climbing birds
- Genus and family: Order Coraciiformes, Family Aldehydeidae, Genus Aldehyde
Vital signs data
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- Lifespan: No verification data available.
Significant features
It is a bird native to the Philippines.
Distribution and Habitat
It is distributed in the Philippines.
They typically inhabit dense forests and riverbanks near water.
Appearance
It is a very beautiful kingfisher with scale-like brown feathers all over its body, and slightly darker wings and back. It has an orange-red forehead and collar, a wide black eye stripe, bright blue whiskers, and a dark gray upper part and yellow lower part of its beak.
The beak is thick and long, resembling a chisel, with a relatively wide base, a straight beak peak, a rounded ridge, and no nasal grooves on either side; the wings are rounded, with the first primary flight feather being the same length as or slightly shorter than the seventh primary flight feather, and the second, third, and fourth primary flight feathers being nearly the same length; the base of the primary flight feathers has white spots; the tail is rounded.
Detailed introduction
The spotted wood kingfisher, scientifically known as Actenoides lindsayi, has two subspecies.
The spotted kingfisher typically hunts alone or in pairs, and like most forest kingfishers, it is entirely carnivorous. It usually searches for prey in leaves or soil. Its main diet consists of invertebrates such as crickets, spiders, scorpions, and snails. It also eats small vertebrates such as small fish, small snakes, and lizards.
The spotted kingfisher nests on earthen cliffs or river embankments, using its beak to dig tunnel-like burrows, 60 cm deep, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm high, with an oval shape. These burrows are generally unlined. Eggs are laid directly on the ground inside the burrow. Some kingfishers also burrow into tree trunks to make nests. The eggs are nearly round, pure white, and approximately 29.4 × 26.2 mm in size.
Listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver 3.1, 2008).
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