Blue-winged Kookaburras
Kingfisher
The Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii, is distributed to southern New Guinea and the moister parts of northern Australia, from southern Queensland across the Top End, and as far down the Western Australian coast as the Shark Bay area.
Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Blue-winged Kookabura is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The scientific name commemorates the British zoologist William Elford Leach.
Description
The Blue-winged Kookaburra is a smaller species of kookaburras at around 40 cm long.
It has a light-coloured eye, no dark eye-mask, and many more blue wing feathers.
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