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Yellow-billed Kingfisher

(Syma torotoro)
Alternate name(s): "White-tailed Kingfisher", "Racquet-tailed Kingfisher"
Size: 18-21 cm; wing span 28-30 cm
Weight: 30-52 g
Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Yellow-billed Kingfisher at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

Race "flavirostris"

ADULT

MALE

Frontal view of a male Yellow-billed Kingfisher; note the orange-rufous cap (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Frontal view of a male Yellow-billed Kingfisher; note the orange-rufous cap (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Frontal view of a male Yellow-billed Kingfisher (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Lateral view of a male Yellow-billed Kingfisher (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Near-dorsal view of a male Yellow-billed Kingfisher (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

Near-dorsal/ventral view of a male Yellow-billed Kingfisher with its crest erected (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Iron Range NP, Cape York peninsula, QLD, August 2019]

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