🐦Belted Kingfisher
The belted kingfisher is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 0.15 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Belted Kingfisher
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.15 kgAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tail length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.16 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.06 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.01 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatRiverineAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleInsessorialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Belted Kingfisher yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCoraciiformes
- ›familyAlcedinidae
- ›genusMegaceryle
- ›speciesMegaceryle alcyon
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyCerylidae
- genusMegaceryle
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyCerylidae
- genusMegaceryle
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