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

  

    

    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 Haelmahera.
• Eurystomus orientalis laetior (Sharpe, RB 1890)
  – Southwestern India (southern Western Ghats).
• Eurystomus orientalis gigas (Stresemann, EFT 1913)
  – S Andaman Islands.
• Eurystomus orientalis oberholseri (Junge, GCA 1936)
  – Simeulue I. (off Sumatra).
• Eurystomus orientalis waigiouensis (Elliot, DG 1871)
  – New Guinea, w Papuan is., D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade Arch.
• Eurystomus orientalis [pacificus or connectens] (Latham, J 1802) or (Stresemann, EFT 1913)
  – Resident in the Lesser Sundas and northernmost Australia, probably also southern Sulawesi and the Sula Islands; also breeds northern and eastern Australia populations, these populations wintering north to New Guinea and Wallacea.
• Eurystomus orientalis crassirostris (Sclater, PL 1869)
  – Bismarck Archipelago.
• Eurystomus orientalis solomonensis (Sharpe, RB 1890)
  – Feni I. and Solomon Islands.
• Eurystomus orientalis [cyanicollis or latouchei] (Vieillot, LJP 1819)
  – Himalayas to China, Manchuria and Korea; winters to Indonesia.
• Eurystomus orientalis irisi (Deraniyagala, PEP 1951)
  – Sri Lanka.

Date : 09 December 2021

Location : Kuala Gula Mangrove, Daerah Kerian, Perak