Kingfisher Bird Sleeping

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Kingfisher Bird Sleeping

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I believe this is a blue-eared Kingfisher (Alcedo meninting).

Spotted on the Kinabatangan River near Sukau (Borneo)

The small bird was sleeping so tight that we could approach a few feet from it, silently, with a boat.

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Photo taken on August 13, 2011
Kinabatangan, Malaysia
GPS coordinates: 5.537205,118.297247 - Download KML file for Google Earth (and other mapping apps)
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