Chloroceryle amazona

Chloroceryle amazona, the scientific name of the Amazon green fish dog, is the largest species of green fish dog, and its appearance is quite similar to that of green fish dog, which is easy to be confused when the size of the green fish dog is not visible from a distance.

The Amazon Green fish dog 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 food is mainly small fish, is a real fishing master, it can catch 12 cm long fish, also eat prawns.

Amazon green fish and dogs generally nest on earth cliffs, or fields and streams and rivers on the embankment, with their mouths dug tunnel burrows for nests, 25 centimeters wide, 45 centimeters long, about 16 centimeters high. These caves are generally bare of bedding. The female lays three or four eggs directly on the nest ground. Egg color pure white, bright, solid shell, slightly spotted. Incubation lasts 22 days. The adult birds are fed, and the chicks hatch in 29 or 30 days from the nest.

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

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The Amazon green fish is found in 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)).
Amazon green fish dogs live in calm lagoons and woodlands where large rivers meander. They usually live below 1200 m in height, not absolutely, and in some areas such as Guatemala and Venezuela, they can reach 1780 or 2500 m in height.

The Amazon Green fish dog is 30cm long, the male bird weighs 98-120g, the female bird weighs 125-140g. The adult male has a dark green top and a bronze glow. The neck is a closed narrow white collar. There are white spots on both primary and secondary feathers. There is a long white beard on the base of the mouth. The chin and the white of the throat are separated by thin green bands. Red and green on both sides of the chest. It has white on the belly, small wings and tail. Both sides have heavy bars with dark green. There is a small dark yellow spot from the mouth to the bottom of the jaw. Iris dark brown, legs dark gray. Unlike the adult female, the breast is white-edged and has green plumage that reaches down to the abdomen. 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.