Chloroceryle amazona (Amazon kingfisher) Chloroceryle amazona
By John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912)
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The Amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) is a species of "water kingfishers" in subfamily Cerylinae of family Alcedinidae. It is found in the lowlands of the American tropics from southern Mexico south through Central America to northern Argentina. The Amazon kingfisher usually hunts from a perch from which it dives into water for its prey. Occasionally it hovers before diving. Its diet is mostly fishes and crustaceans.
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Cerylinae
Genus: Chloroceryle
Species: Chloroceryle amazona (Latham, 1790)
