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- Longueur
- 16 cm
- Poids
- 23 g
Présence dans le détroit
Common resident of rivers and reservoirs.
Identification
Unmistakable. Bluish-green crown and wings, bright blue back and rump. White throat and neck patch. Ear coverts and underparts are orange-chestnut; very short reddish legs; long, straight, black bill and short tail. Juvenile birds are duller and greener. Base of lower mandible in female, orange. Flies low and straight, with fast wing beats. Call a high pitched: «teet».
Déplacements
Sedentary with post-breeding movements with wintering birds from the North. Postnuptial migration is more conspicuous with peaks in 2nd hf. August; prenuptial migration in 2nd hf. March and April, but inconspicuous.
Reprises de bagues
Spain (2) and Belgium (1).
Texte éditorial de Bioestrecho. Dernière révision : 8 septembre 2026.
Galerie
DétroitDiego González Dopico, CC BY · 2025
Alexis Lours, CC BY · 2021
Alexis Lours, CC BY · 2021
Alexis Lours, CC BY · 2021
Alexis Lours, CC BY · 2021
Alexis Lours, CC BY · 2021
