La historia
I photographed this Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) at the Malecón Cameguadua in Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia on June 23, 2017. Unlike many kingfishers, it has no obvious crest. It is a water kingfisher with green upperparts, white spots on the wings and mostly white underparts. The Cameguadua reservoir in Chinchiná belongs to the power company CHEC and is fed by the Chinchiná and Campoalegre rivers. The reservoir sits at about 1,370 meters and has two lakes, with the tourist boardwalk, the malecón, on the northern one.
I took this with a Canon EOS 70D and the EF400mm f/5.6L USM, at 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1600. IUCN lists the Green Kingfisher as Least Concern with a decreasing population, and Chinchiná is part of the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011.
©2018 Adam Rainoff Photographer
El ave
The Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) pertenece a la familia Alcedinidae (Kingfishers) en la taxonomía eBird/Clements.
Fuente: eBird.org (se abre en una pestaña nueva)
Conservación
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2020), with the population trend listed as decreasing. Fuente: Lista Roja de la UICN
