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The Blue-winged Kookaburra has a distribution from southern New Guinea and the moister parts of northern Australia, to the vicinity of Brisbane in southern Queensland across the Top End, and as far down the Western Australian coast as the Shark Bay area.
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Kookaburras are best known for their unmistakable call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughtergood-natured, but rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the renowned Laughing Kookaburra ( Dacelo novaeguineae ); and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged Kookaburra ( D. leachii ).
A male Blue-winged Kookaburra
* Blue-winged Kookaburra ( Dacelo leachii ).
* Dacelo leachii Blue-winged Kookaburra
The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is a large species of kingfisher native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea.
The Blue-winged Kookaburra was first collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, but was initially overlooked and confused with the Laughing Kookaburra, and was finally officially described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1826, its specific name commemorating the British zoologist William Elford Leach.
The adult Blue-winged Kookaburra measures around 38 to 42 cm ( 15-17 in ) in length and weighs 260 to 330 g. Compared to the related Laughing Kookaburra, it is smaller, lacks a dark mask, has more blue in the wing, and striking white eye.
Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Blue-winged Kookaburra is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The Blue-winged Kookaburra hunts and eats a great variety of animals that live on or close to the ground.
The Blue-winged Kookaburra is a cooperative breeder, a group being made up of a breeding pair and one or more helper birds who help raise the young.
The Red Goshawk and Rufous Owl prey upon the Blue-winged Kookaburra.
The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, was also named for him.
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Like the Blue-winged Kookaburra, the sexes can be distinguished by the colour of the tail feathers: blue in males and rufous in females and immature birds.
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The adult female has a mottled brown body, a pale brown head, brown eyes and a grey bill and is very similar in appearance to a female Blue-winged Teal ; however its overall color is richer, the lore spot, eye line, and eye ring are less distinct.
Confusion with the female of the Blue-winged Teal is also possible, but the head and bill shape is different, and the latter species has yellow legs.
The reservoir has been visited by many scarce and rare migrant birds, including an inland Arctic Warbler ( 1993 ), Bonaparte's Gull ( 1994 and 1996 ), Blue-winged Teal ( 1996 and 2000 ) and Squacco Heron ( 2004 ).
It has an orange forehead and blue moustachial line, but lacks the blue flight feathers and tail sides of Blue-winged Leafbird.
Blue-winged and distribution
The distribution of the Blue-winged and the Bornean Leafbird are known to approach each other, but there is no evidence of intergradation.
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The Blue-winged Teal ( Anas discors ) is a small dabbling duck from North America.
The Atlantic Blue-winged Teal nests along the Atlantic Coast from New Brunswick to Pea Island, North Carolina.
These hybrids may be present in low numbers even on the edges of Golden-winged Warbler range, far from any populations of Blue-winged Warblers.
The Blue-winged Leafbird ( Chloropsis cochinchinensis ) is a species of leafbird found in forest and second growth from far north-eastern India and throughout Southeast Asia as far east as Borneo and as far south as Java.
Several species that were certainly or probably escapees from captivity have become established here-for instance, Velvet-fronted Nuthatch, Blue-winged Minla and Silver-eared Mesia.
Blue-winged and southern
The Blue-winged Warbler, Vermivora cyanoptera, is a fairly common New World warbler, 11. 5 cm long and weighing 8. 5 g. It breeds in eastern North America in southern Ontario and the eastern USA.
The Blue-winged Parakeet, also known as the Malabar Parakeet ( Psittacula columboides ) is a species of parakeet endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India.
Blue-winged and New
This species forms two distinctive hybrids with Blue-winged Warbler where their ranges overlap in the Great Lakes and New England area.
Blue-winged and northern
They are migratory and most winter in northern South America and the Caribbean, generally not migrating as far as the Blue-winged Teal.
Blue-winged and across
Golden-winged Warbler populations are slowly expanding northwards, but are generally declining across its range, most likely as a result of habitat loss and competition / interbreeding with the very closely related Blue-winged Warbler, Vermivora cyanoptera.
Genetic introgression occurs across their range, producing cryptic hybrids ( morphologically pure individuals with small amounts of Blue-winged Warbler DNA ).
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Blue-winged Teal are rare in the desert southwest, and the west coast.
Blue-winged and area
Unusual for close relatives, the Laughing and Blue-winged species are direct competitors in the area where their ranges overlap.
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The Blue-winged Goose, Cyanochen cyanopterus belongs either to these, or to lineage closer to ducks.
Among the birds in the aviary are Black-crowned Night Heron, Blue-winged Teal, Bufflehead Duck, Cattle Egret, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Egret, Wood Duck, Northern Bobwhite, Roseate Spoonbill, Snowy Egret, and American White Ibis.
All kookaburras are sexually dimorphic, but this is only obvious in the Blue-winged and the Rufous-bellied, where males have noticeably blue tails and females have rufous ( reddish-brown ) tails.
Bachman ’ s Warbler does not have any extremely close relatives, though the Blue-winged and Golden-winged Warblers, also members of the genus Vermivora, are thought to be its closest relatives.
The Blue-winged Teal is long, with a wingspan of, and a weight of.
The placement of the Blue-winged Teal in the genus Anas is by no means certain ; a member of the " blue-winged " group also including the shovelers, it may be better placed with them in a separate genus Spatula.
The western Blue-winged Teal inhabits that part of the breeding range west of the Appalachian Mountains.
* Blue-winged Teal Information at eNature. com
Male juvenile resembles a female Cinnamon or Blue-winged Teal but their eyes are red.
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