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Red-breasted Paradise Kingfisher
Tanysiptera nympha Gray, GR, 1840
Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
Red-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, Tanysiptera nympha, is a kingfisher of New Guinea, breeding in the Bird’s Head and Neck of north-west New Guinea and also in scattered areas in the north-east, including the Adelbert Range, Huon Peninsula and Huon Gulf. It belongs to the family Alcedinidae and was described by Gray, GR, in 1840. Its range is tied to Australasia.
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae — Kingfishers
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Bird's Head and Neck (nw New Guinea) and disjunctly in ne (Adelbert Range, Huon Pen. and Huon Gulf) New Guinea
