Animal Profile IUCN: LC

Todirhamphus diops

Todirhamphus diops，Moluccan Kingfisher

The Moluccan emerald, Todirhamphus diops, or Moluccan Kingfisher, is a species of kingfisher of the genus Collin.The Moluccan emerald, like most forest game kingfishers, is entirely carnivorous. Often searching for prey in leaves or dirt. The main diet is invertebrates such as crickets, spiders, sco

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Scientific Name Todirhamphus diops，Moluccan Kingfisher

Length 19-20cm

Weight 41-65g

Lifespan No textual research information is available

IUCN Status LC

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The Moluccan emerald, Todirhamphus diops, or Moluccan Kingfisher, is a species of kingfisher of the genus Collin.

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The Moluccan emerald, like most forest game kingfishers, is entirely 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.

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Moluccan emerald nests on earth cliffs or river embankments, tunnelled caves dug with mouths for nests, 60 cm deep, 20 cm wide, 10 cm high, 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.

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Listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ver 3.1:2008 Red List of Birds.

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Profile Details

Key characteristics, appearance, and habitat information.

Traits & Behavior

Appearance

The Moluccan emerald is 19-20 cm long and weighs 41-45 for females and 42-65 for males. The apex of the front and edge of the male's head is black, and the rest is bluish-purple. The forehead has a circular or triangular mark at the base of the coracoid, slightly higher than the mouth. The neck is black, often with some white feathers. Very wide white collar. Wings and wings, forechest and upper body blue-purple, shoulder and back are more obvious. The tail is another bright blue. The lower body is pure white. The overlying wings are white, and the tail is grayish black. Mouth black, irises dark brown, gray-black legs. The adult female is different, with a blue-black neck on both sides of the back. The chest is crisscrossed with blue-purple broadband.
The mouth is thick and long like a chisel, the base is wider, the mouth peak is straight, the peak ridge is round, there is no nasal groove on both sides; Wing circle, the first primary feather is equal or slightly shorter than th

Distribution & Habitat

It is distributed in the Wallace Region (refers to the area east of the traditional Wallace Line (from the eastern side of Mindanao through the Makassar Strait between Bali and Lombok) and west of Papua New Guinea, including the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara Islands, Southwest Islands, Moluccas (Maluku Islands), East Timor and other islands).
The original habitat of the Moluccan emerald is today the densely populated North Maluku Islands. They usually inhabit dense forests and riverbanks near water, and are generally active in forest edges, woodlands, gardens, and farmlands.

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