Family: Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Authority: Gray, 1858

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species is known to inhabit southern New Guinea, but recent searches have reported only a handful of records. There is no information on its likely distribution extent, population size or trends, although there are unlikely to be significant threats within its distribution. For these reasons, it is classified as Data Deficient.

Population size: unknown

Population trend: Unknown

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 186,000 km²

Country endemic: No

Attributes
Realm - Oceanic
IUCN Ecosystem -- Terrestrial biome