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Lilac Kingfishers
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Lilac Kingfishers

Cittura

The lilac kingfisher or Celebes flat-billed kingfisher (Cittura cyanotis) is a resident breeding bird in the lowlands of the Indonesia island of Sulawesi and the neighbouring Sangihe and Talaud Islands. It is the only member of the genus Cittura.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher

speciesCittura cyanotis

Sangihe Lilac Kingfisher

speciesCittura sanghirensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 2657.