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Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher
Tanysiptera ellioti Sharpe, 1870
Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher, Tanysiptera ellioti, is a kingfisher of the family Alcedinidae found in Australasia on Kofiau in the Raja Ampat Islands north-west of New Guinea. It is endemic to that island and occurs in primary forest, tall secondary forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland habitat, as well as lightly wooded village gardens. It is a tree kingfisher and is treated as distinct from the common paradise kingfisher. Sharpe described it in 1870.
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Kofiau (Raja Ampat Is., nw of New Guinea)
