Spangled kookaburra

The spangled kookaburra (Dacelo tyro) also called Aru giant kingfisher, is a little-known species of kookaburra found in the Aru Islands, Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands of southern New Guinea. Practically nothing is known of its family life or breeding biology.

Spangled kookaburra
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Halcyoninae
Genus: Dacelo
Species:
D. tyro
Binomial name
Dacelo tyro
Gray, 1858
Subspecies
  • D. t. archboldi - (Rand, 1938)
  • D. t. tyro - Gray, GR, 1858
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