Chloroceryle americana

The green fish dog is 20cm long, the male bird weighs 29-40 g, and the female bird weighs 33-55 g. The adult male's forehead and eyes are first black, and the tip of the head is dark green and bronzed. The wing feathers have white spots. The chin and throat are striped white and green. The abdomen is red, the central part of the abdomen is white, the wings are green, and the ends of the wings are dark green. Tail green and white. Black mouth, dark brown iris, dark gray legs. The head of the adult female is similar to that of the male. The lower part is completely different: the throat is cream or pale yellow, the upper chest is golden green. The abdomen is light yellow. The size is larger. Mouth long and flat side, peak ridge round; Nasal sulci was significant; The wingtip of the first primary feather is shorter than that of the second, and the second or third feather is the longest; The tail is longer than the mouth.

The Greenfish is found in North America (including the United States, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands, and the transition zone between North and Central America in Mexico), Central America (located between North and South America, Including Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.), South America (including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falkland Islands))
The green fish dog is the most common species of kingfisher. It is found in almost all freshwater and saltwater regions. Especially where there are trees along streams. They are also found in ponds, evergreen forests, coastal lagoons, mangroves, wetlands, small streams, and watercourse clogs. Its range

Chloroceryle americana, also known as Green Kingfisher, has five subspecies (1.Chloroceryle americana hachisukai is found in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico). 2.Chloroceryle americana septentrionalis is distributed in Colombia, Venezuela, and Texas. 3.Chloroceryle americana cabanisii is found in Colombia, the Andes Mountains, Ecuador and Chile. 4.Chloroceryle americana americana is found in Venezuela, the Andes Mountains, Bolivia and Brazil. 5.Chloroceryle americana mathewsii is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia.) .

Greenfish dogs usually hunt alone or in pairs. During the breeding season, there are serious disputes to defend territory. It is a fish-eating kingfisher with excellent dive diving techniques and can even hover in the air to lock on to its target. They live mainly by the river and fish for a living. It lives in brush or open forest, clear and slow-flowing rivers, streams, lakes and irrigation canals. It often flies over rivers, streams, ponds and swamps looking down for food. As soon as you spot food, make a quick dive. Usually live alone on the top of a tree branch near the water, the top of a telephone pole or on a rock, waiting for an opportunity to hunt. It usually squatts on the low branches and stones near the water, waiting for bait. The method of hunting is the same as that of the kingfisher, which often preys on the surface of the water or dives into the water to hunt. Sometimes they can even disappear completely under water; Sometimes it flaps its wings and stops flying in the air about 3-10 meters from the water, as if hanging on the water, and when it sees the prey, it immediately dives into the water to hunt it. It puts the catch on the perch, and keeps fiddling with it, and even throws the fish up in order to swallow the fish from the head first. The diet is mainly small fish, and it also eats crustaceans and a variety of aquatic insects and their larvae, including various shrimp, but also eats ants and other small bees.

The spawning season of greenfish dogs depends on the region: April in Texas, March and January to May in Mexico. Spawning occurs in April in Costa Rica and from November to February to November in Panama and Argentina. Nest on earth cliffs, or on the banks of fields and streams and rivers, with a tunnel dug by the mouth for the nest, 5 or 6 centimeters in diameter and 1 meter long. These caves are generally bare of bedding. The female lays three to six eggs directly on the nest ground. Egg color pure white, bright, solid shell, slightly spotted. The chicks leave the nest after 27 days.

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

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