Small green kingfisher with orange head and bright yellow bill, found in wet rainforest on Cape York Peninsula and in New Guinea.
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Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.
Species notes
Overview
In flight, note uniformly colored wings (no wing spots). Adult female has small black cap. Juvenile similar to adult but with black bill.
Behavior
It perches in the low canopy, swaying from side to side, before swooping down to the ground to take its prey. The nest of the yellow-billed kingfisher is usually an excavated chamber in an arboreal termite nest. Calls include loud, repeated whistling trills like a postman's whistle, mainly during the breeding season.
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