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Red-breasted paradise kingfisher
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Halcyoninae
Genus: Tanysiptera
Species: T. nympha
Binomial name
Tanysiptera nympha
G.R. Gray, 1840

The red-breasted paradise kingfisher or fairy paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera nympha) is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical mangrove forest.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Tanysiptera nympha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22683597A92991207. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22683597A92991207.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
Tree kingfishers
Lacedo
Dacelo
Clytoceyx
Cittura
Pelargopsis
Halcyon
Todiramphus
Caridonax
Melidora
Actenoides
Syma
Tanysiptera
56 to 61 living species in 12 genera
Taxon identifiers
Tanysiptera nympha


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