Critically Endangered
Blue-banded Kingfisher
Alcedo euryzona
Its population is estimated to be just 50-249 individuals, and is believed to be in decline.
Appearance
The male is highly distinctive, with a broad blue-green band across a white chest. The female is very different, with an all-orange belly. Distinguished from the common kingfisher (A. Atthis) by an overall duller, darker coloration and the lack of a bright white-and-orange patch behind the eye, its call is piercing similar to the common kingfisher.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to and found throughout Java, but is thought to be extremely rare due to human pressures such as habitat destruction. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and rivers.
Habitat labels include mangrove forest, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, and river.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Blue-banded Kingfisher is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Blue-banded Kingfisher, Wikidata item Q510682. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
