Kingfishers
Black-capped Kingfisher
Halcyon pileata
The Black-capped Kingfisher (Halcyon pileata) is an 84 g river bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Kingfishers
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Weight
- 84 g
- Habitat
- Riverine
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 17
Recorded in Thailand, India, Cambodia, Malaysia, Taiwan, China, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Laos, Indonesia, MO, Nepal.
Where to see it: Prek Toal Bird Sanctuary (Cambodia); Hyangsan (Dem. Rep. Korea); Moran Hill (Dem. Rep. Korea); Phnom Krom · rice fields (Cambodia); Pak Thale Nature Reserve (general area) (Thailand).
