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Black-capped Paradise Kingfisher
Tanysiptera nigriceps Sclater, PL, 1877
Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
Black-capped Paradise Kingfisher, Tanysiptera nigriceps, is a kingfisher of the New Britain group in the south-eastern Bismarck Archipelago, where it breeds on New Britain and Duke of York Island, with another form on Umboi Island. First described by Sclater in 1877, it belongs to the family Alcedinidae. It is a tree kingfisher with the long tail streamers typical of paradise kingfishers. The nominate race has a black head and upper neck, white mantle and rump, blue wings and outer tail feathers, pale buff underparts, and orange bill and feet.
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
- Breeding range
- Australasia: New Britain group (se Bismarck Arch.)
