Todirhamphus funebris

Light black jade scientific name Todirhamphus funebris, Halcyon funebris, foreign name Sombre kingfisher, the order of the Buddha, one of the kingfisher family.

The pale black 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.

There is no breeding information because no nests have been found.

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

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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).
It lives in the dense forests of the island and is also found in swamp forests, coconut forests, secondary forests, mangroves, and forest margins. Sometimes entering farmland, gardens, and coconut plantations near forests, this species is quite common at sea level up to 620 m.

The light black emerald is 30 cm long. The crown and forehead are black, with green tones in the eyes, cheekbones, cheeks and neck. It has long, narrow white eyebrows and a wide white collar around the neck. The upper coat is dark green. Back, shoulders, wings dark olive green. The tail is olive green. The whole lower part of the white looks a little dull. There are black marks on each side of the chest. Black upper jaw. Dark brown irises, black legs. The female is slightly deeper than the male. Head tip black, back and tail black brown. Most of the plumage is light olive. Olive green on the wings and tail.
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 the seventh primary feather, and the second, third, and fourth are nearly equal in length; Primary feather base with white spots; The tail is round.