Banded kingfisher

Banded kingfisher
A male, in Sumatra, Indonesia
A female in Thailand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Halcyoninae
Genus: Lacedo
Reichenbach, 1851
Species:
L. pulchella
Binomial name
Lacedo pulchella
(Horsfield, 1821)
Subspecies[2]
  • L. p. amabilis - (Hume, 1873)
  • L. p. pulchella - (Horsfield, 1821)
  • L. p. melanops - (Bonaparte, 1850)

The banded kingfisher (Lacedo pulchella) is a tree kingfisher found in lowland tropical forests of southeast Asia. It is the only member of the genus Lacedo. Male and female adults are very different in plumage. The male has a bright blue crown with black and blue banding on the back. The female has rufous and black banding on the head and upperparts.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Lacedo pulchella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22726905A94935347. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726905A94935347.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.