Saturday, August 16, 2008

American Pygmy Kingfisher


Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Cerylidae
Genus: Chloroceryle
Species: C. aenea




The American Pygmy Kingfisher, Chloroceryle aenea, is a resident breeding bird which occurs in the American tropics from southern Mexico south through Central America to western Ecuador, and then around the northern Andes cordillera in the east to central Bolivia and central Brazil. The species occupies the entire Amazon Basin and the Tocantins River drainage adjacent in ParĂ¡ state Brazil. It also occurs on Trinidad.

for more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pygmy_Kingfisher

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