Buru Dwarf Kingfisher

Buru Dwarf KingfisherA small kingfisher endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia. Wallace's original description notes a black upper surface with pale-blue spots and feather edges, rufous-yellow underparts, a white throat, and coral-red bill and feet. A later nineteenth-century letter describes feeding in swamp thickets.What does it look like?The original description gives black upperparts with tiny pale-blue head spots and pale-blue outer feather areas, rufous-yellow underparts, white throat, and pale coral-red bill and feet.What did it eat near water?A small kingfisher endemic to Buru Island, Indonesia. Wallace's original description notes a black upper surface with pale-blue spots and feather edges, rufous-yellow underparts, a white throat, and coral-red bill and feet. A later nineteenth-century letter describes feeding in swamp thickets.A Wallace letter describes it in swamp thickets on Buru, taking water insects and tiny fish from pools and ditches.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.