Alcedo pusilla

Alcedo pusilla, Little Kingfisher, has nine subspecies.

Small kingfishers are lonely, usually live alone on the branches or rocks near the water, waiting for the opportunity to hunt, the food is mainly small fish, and eat crustaceans and a variety of aquatic insects and larvae, but also pecking small frogs and a small number of aquatic plants. When a kingfisher plunges into the water, it can also maintain excellent vision because its eyes can quickly adjust the contrast in the Angle of view caused by the light in the water. So the fishing ability is very strong.

Small kingfishers generally nest in mangroves, termites eat empty trees, termite forts, dig tunnel holes with their mouths for nests, nests 10 cm high, 13 cm wide, 3 cm in diameter, 15 cm long, young birds leave the nest nine days. The spawning season varies slightly in different regions: November and February in Queensland and February in New Guinea and Papua New Guinea. Each clutch lays 6-7 eggs. Egg color pure white, bright, slightly spotted, about 28 mm ×18 mm in size, 1-2 broods per year; The incubation period is about 21 days, and the eggs are incubated by both sexes, but only fed by the female.

Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2013 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Low Risk (LC).

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Small kingfishers are found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
They live mainly in coastal areas and coastal plains, and their habitats vary widely from coastal woodlands, ponds, streams, forests, mangroves, and swamps. At altitudes as high as 540 m in New Guinea and 850 m in Mount Atherton, the Australian Lesser Kingfisher, Queensland, Australia, is almost entirely in mangroves and many small islands, its habitat strictly coastal.

The baby kingfisher is 11 cm long and weighs 10-14 grams for males and 10-12 grams for females. They are composed of two colors, head, upper body, wings dark blue. The underbody is pure white. There is a white patch at the base of the beak and markings on the sides of the neck. The sides and wings of the chest are also blue, hidden at the wing corners. The iris is brown and black like a circle surrounding the black eye. The legs are grayish brown. Dark spots on the forehead and cheeks. There are boundary lines of black feathers on both sides of the chest.
Mouth thick straight, long and firm, mouth ridge round; No nasal furrow; The wingtip is long, the first primary feathers are slightly shorter, and the third and fourth feathers are longest; Tail short round; The body feathers are showy and luminous, often blue or green. The head is large, the neck is short, the wings are short and round, and the tail is mostly short; The mouth is long and pointed, the rostrum is round and blunt, th