Dollarbird

Order - Coraciiformes
Family - Coraciidae (Rollers)

Dollarbird

Eurystomus orientalis

三宝鸟 (sān-bǎo-niǎo)

    Malay : Tiung-Batu Biasa

    Japanese : ブッポウソウ (buppōsō)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 仏法僧

    Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 53,500,000km²
    Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding) : 32,400,000km²
    Migratory Status : Full Migrant
    Breeding Endemic : No

  

    

    Size : 27–32 cm; Male 109–175 g and female 117–186 g (orientalis, pacificus, solomonensis),
              Male 165–214 g and female 164–182 g (waigiouensis), Female 190–205 g (crassirostris)

    

    Subspecies (10) and Distribution

• Eurystomus orientalis orientalis (Linnaeus, C 1766)
  – breeds from the southern Himalayas to the Ryukyu Islands and southeastern Asia, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, and Borneo; winters to southeastern India, the Philippines, Sulawesi, and Helmahera.
• Eurystomus orientalis laetior (Sharpe, RB 1890)
  – SW India (Western Ghats S into Kerala).
• Eurystomus orientalis gigas (Stresemann, EFT 1913)
  – S Andaman Is.
• Eurystomus orientalis oberholseri (Junge, GCA 1936)
  – Simeulue I, off NW Sumatra.
• Eurystomus orientalis waigiouensis (Elliot, DG 1871)
  – W Papuan Is and New Guinea (including islands of Yapen, Karkar, Bagabag, Umboi, Trobriand Is, and D’Entrecasteaux and Louisiade Archipelagos).
• Eurystomus orientalis pacificus (Latham, J 1802) or (Stresemann, EFT 1913)
  – Lesser Sundas and N and E Australia, probably also S Sulawesi and Sula Is; S populations winter N to New Guinea and Wallacea.
• Eurystomus orientalis crassirostris (Sclater, PL 1869)
  – Bismarck Archipelago.
• Eurystomus orientalis solomonensis (Sharpe, RB 1890)
  – Feni Is (E Bismarcks), also Nissan I (probably), and Solomon Is from Buka and Bougainville E to Makira (San Cristobal), including most small islands.
• Eurystomus orientalis cyanocollis (Vieillot, LJP 1819)
  – Nepal, N India (E Himachal to Arunachal and N Assam) and Bangladesh to E China (N to Manchuria), SE Russian Far East (to lower R Amur), Korea and Japan (Honshu to Kyushu); winters S to S Asia and Greater Sundas.
• Eurystomus orientalis irisi (Deraniyagala, PEP 1951)
  – SC Sri Lanka.

Distribution Map

Eurystomus orientalis ssp. orientalis
Date : 09 December 2021

Location : Kuala Gula Mangrove, Daerah Kerian, Perak