30 Oct 2024        10:29:02 am

Environmental Ecology

Guam kingfisher

Tags : Guam kingfisher

Topic: Biodiversity

Why in the news?

• Guam kingfishers went extinct in the wild almost forty years ago.
• Now, six of the birds have been released on Cooper Island in the Pacific Ocean after keepers from Whipsnade and London Zoos helped to hand-rear them.
• Experts are now monitoring the rare kingfishers, with the hope of returning them to their native home of Guam in the near future.

Source: The Times of India

About Guam kingfisher:

• It is also known as a sihek.
• It is a reddish-orange bird in the kingfisher family.
• It has blue wings.
• It is about the same size as a North American robin.
• It is one of two subspecies, the other being the now-extinct Micronesian kingfisher.

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