Very large kingfisher with heavy bill and ragged crest. Females have a blue breast band and chestnut belly.
Very large kingfisher with heavy bill and ragged crest. Males are mostly chestnut below from breast through belly.
Hunts for fish from perches over freshwater. Often jerks the tail and head upwards while perched.
Very large, heavy-billed kingfisher. Females usually show a thin white band separating blue breast from chestnut belly.
Immatures usually show some female-like plumage including some blue feathering across breast.
Females have a blue breast band and chestnut or rufous belly, separated by a narrow white border. Often jerks the tail and head upwards while perched.
In flight, females have extensive rufous under the wing and tail.
The subspecies that breeds in southern South America has a shorter bill and darker blue upperparts than the northern subspecies.
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A heavy-bodied, very large kingfisher, with a thick, daggerlike bill, shaggy crest, fairly long tail, moderately long wings, and short legs.
Larger than a Belted Kingfisher, smaller than an American Crow.
between robin and crowOrnithologists recognize two Ringed Kingfisher subspecies groups: a "Northern" group that ranges from southern Texas to northern Argentina, and a "Patagonian" group found in southern Chile and Argentina.
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