The Story
I photographed this Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) at Ecohotel La Fortuna in Yopal, Casanare, Colombia. The female does most of the incubating at night and the male during the day. It usually hunts from a perch, diving into the water from about 1 to 1.5 meters up. Its diet is mostly fish, especially characins, along with crustaceans. Both members of a pair dig the nest burrow in a riverbank, up to about 1.6 meters long with a chamber at the end. Yopal is the capital of Casanare.
I made this frame with a Pentax K-1 and the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm f/4.5-5.6, at 1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200, +0.3 EV. IUCN lists the Amazon Kingfisher as Least Concern, with a decreasing population.
©2019 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) belongs to the family Alcedinidae (Kingfishers) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2020), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Source: IUCN Red List