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Buru Dwarf Kingfisher
Ceyx cajeli Wallace, 1863
Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
Buru Dwarf Kingfisher, Ceyx cajeli, is a kingfisher in the family Alcedinidae found on Buru in the western Moluccas, within Australasia. It is associated with subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. First described by Wallace in 1863, it was once treated as a subspecies of the variable dwarf kingfisher. A 2013 molecular study showed that the island forms had diverged enough to be split, and this bird was raised to full species rank when the former variable dwarf kingfisher was renamed the Moluccan dwarf kingfisher.
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Buru (wc Moluccas)
