Name:Actenoides hombroni
Alias:Actenoides hombroni,Blue-capped Kingfisher,Hombron's kingfisher
Outline:Woodbird
Family:
length:About 27 cm
Weight:106-147g
Life:No textual research information is available
IUCN:LC
The Blue-capped emerald Actenoides hombroni, also known as Blue-capped Kingfisher and Hombron's kingfisher, is endemic to the Philippines.
Blue-topped jadeite hunt alone or in pairs. Like most forest kingfishers, they are completely carnivorous. Often searching for prey in leaves or dirt. The main diet is invertebrates such as crickets, spiders, scorpions, and snails. It also eats small vertebrates such as small fish, small snakes and lizards.
Until about the 1970s, blue-topped jadeite was quite common in the area. Extensive deforestation over the past three decades has fragmented the habitat and the species has declined in large numbers.
Blue top emerald nest on the earth cliff or river dyke, with the mouth digging tunnel type cave for the nest, 60 cm deep, 20 cm wide, 10 cm high long, oval. These caves are generally bare of bedding. The eggs are laid directly on the nest ground. Some also drill holes in tree trunks for nests. Oval, pure white, about 29.4×26.2 mm in size.
Listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ver 3.1:2008 Red List of Birds: Vulnerable.
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