Kingfishers
American Pygmy Kingfisher
Chloroceryle aenea
The American Pygmy Kingfisher (Chloroceryle aenea) is a 14 g river bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Kingfishers
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Weight
- 14 g
- Habitat
- Riverine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 18
Recorded in Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, GF, El Salvador, Bolivia.
Where to see it: Caroni Swamp (Trinidad and Tobago); Los Guatuzos Centro Ecológico y Río Papaturro (Nicaragua); Peperpot Nature Park (Suriname); Refugio mixto Caño Negro (Costa Rica); Mahaica River · Baiabu (Guyana).
