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	Malachite Kingfisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Malachite Kingfisher (Alcedo cristata) is a river kingfisher which is widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara.
		This is a small kingfisher, 13 cm in length.
		The flight of the Malachite Kingfisher is rapid, the short rounded wings whirring until they appear a mere blur.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malachite_Kingfisher (410 words)

	Kingfisher Spa -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kingfishers of all three families beat their prey to death, either by whipping it against a tree or by dropping it on a stone.
		The kingfishers are quite well-known: the vagueness of the counts reflects controversies in the taxonomy of this family more than any gross lack of data on the birds themselves.
		The Belted Kingfisher, ''M. alcyon'', is the only kingfisher that is widespread in North America, though two of the tropical American species range as far north as Texas and Arizona.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/83/kingfisher-spa.html (1213 words)

	Surfbirds Birding Trip Report: Madagascar - October 2003
		Madagascar Bush Larks were easily seen and Madagascar Swamp Warbler and a Wood Sandpiper were seen by a few of the group.
		Several Madagascar Paradise Flycatchers were seen as well as a pair of Rufous Vangas visiting their nest lodged in the fork of a tree.
		Firstly we checked out the Madagascar Sparrowhawks nest but only the first two people were lucky enough to see the female stood on top of the nest before she sat down and became almost invisible.
	www.surfbirds.com /trip_report.php?id=920 (10180 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		Madagascar is truly one of the most amazing places on earth, both from the point of view of the naturalist and the anthropologist.
		Madagascar, a birding hotspot with 120 endemic bird species, has unprecedented levels of higher-order endemism including five bird families that are to be found nowhere else.
		Madagascar is one of the world`s highest conservation priorities because many of the animals and plants are in imminent danger of extinction, including three species of birds of prey.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/africa/madagascar.html (3561 words)

	Dr. Mitchell Irwin - Study Site: Tsinjoarivo, Madagascar
		Tsinjoarivo is a unique, high-altitude rainforest found at the escarpment dividing Madagascar’s central high plateau from its eastern lowlands.
		Biological surveys in the Tsinjoarivo region, though brief, have indicated a high level of biodiversity, with at least: 9-10 primates, 17 insectivores (including 16 endemic lipotyphlans), 7 rodents (including 5 endemic nesomyines), 5 carnivores (4 of which are endemic), 92 birds, 24 reptiles and 30 amphibians.
		Like most rural areas in Madagascar, economic and educational opportunities are few and far between, and public and environmental health is suffering.
	www.biology.mcgill.ca /grad/irwin/site.htm (647 words)

	Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon - Martin-pêcheur d'Amérique
		Belted Kingfisher male and female have blue grey plumage, with white collar.
		Belted Kingfisher is a solitary bird, except during breeding season.
		Belted Kingfisher is shot illegally at some fish hatcheries where it becomes a predator.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/coraciiformes/belted.kingfisher.html (868 words)

	1999 Africa Trip: Madagascar
		Madagascar was the main focus of my trip to Africa, a chance to go somewhere exotic to see unusual animals and birds, and to see a different culture.
		I had a short rest, during with I photographed the kingfisher, and saw a parson's chameleon and a Madagascar boa.
		I saw crested couas, sickle-billed vanga (Falculea palliata), Madagascar sparrowhawk (Accipiter madagascariensis), magpie robin (Copsychus albospecularis), Madagascar kestrel (Falco newtoni), green pigeon (Treron australis), and a Madagascar coucal (Centropus toulou).
	www.sagarmatha.com /galleries/Madagascar (5911 words)

	Kingfishers
		The Kingfishers are a fairly large family of distinctive birds scattered around the globe.
		This group of kingfishers, perhaps the most primitive of the lot, includes the forest dwelling kookaburras of Australasia, the woodland kingfishers of Africa and Australia, and a wide selection of elusive kingfishers from southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
		Although we often think of these type of kingfishers when we think of the family, there are only 9 species of Cerylinae kingfishers and thus they comprise only 10% of the family.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/kingfishers.html (2572 words)

	Madagascar
		Madagascar is an island continent that broke away from Africa more than 120 million years ago with the result that it’s flora and fauna has developed in isolation to achieve an incredible level of endemism.
		Views of Madagascar Cuckoo were well received, this species is supposed to spend the austral winter in East Africa and we did not expect to see it.
		Two more Madagascar Crested Ibis were a bonus, yet again intent on “legging it” as a means of escape, this species can be hard to catch-up with so two sightings in as many days was good going.
	www.northamptonshirewildlife.co.uk /triplist/TRIPMADA.HTM (3282 words)

	Birdquest, Trip Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The new president of Madagascar has made roads a priority and in Tulear this meant that they had at last fixed some of the potholes and were busy making smart new pavements (while the pedestrians all still walked in the gutters!).
		We saw a Madagascar Nightjar on the nest, and also at the nest, and a big surprise, was a female Madagascar Sparrowhawk, which showed superbly.
		Madagascar Jacana and a very tame White-throated Rail followed shortly, and crossing the road we hiked the short way up onto the plateau where almost immediately we were watching a Van Dam's Vanga.
	www.birdquest.co.uk /trip_reports_detail.cfm?ReportID=311 (3225 words)

	Madagascar Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The one benefit of the limited communications network in Madagascar is that the imposed isolation from one major city to the next, results in a forced period of restful calm in between.
		After the ceremonies, which had completely overwhelmed all of us, we sat down with AGEM and WCS to iron out any difficulties in the deed of covenant which we would all sign, and which set out the purposes for which the boat was to be used.
		The actress was filming the sequel to her "marooned on a desert island" programme, and we thought we could empathise with her venture.
	www.nagy.co.uk /madagasc2.htm (3767 words)

	Birding Tour Report 2001
		The Mangoro River, near the town of Moramanga, is the usual haunt of the Madagascar pratincole, but this time we did not see one on either journey: they were probably all sitting on the airstrip on Ile Ste Marie or winging their way home from East Africa.
		A tiny orange and white Madagascar pygmy kingfisher sat in the low vegetation near the lemurs for ages and Brenda was even able to photograph him.
		Before long a few Madagascar rails with their insistent, piping calls could be heard and were seen moving through the tall thick grass and reeds.
	www.madagascar-travel.net /birding_reports.html (2875 words)

	Madagascar
		Among the ones we identified were blue couas, opalescent green doves, magpie robins, rollers, vermillion foudias, sunbirds, drongos, warblers, forest kingfishers, rails, honeycreepers, cuckoo shrikes, blue vangas, and bulbuls.
		In 1963, a sorcerer named Petain tried to take part of the tree, and he would have died if he hadn't sacrificed a cow to the tree, as he was told to do in a dream.
		They are thought to be inhabited by a special category of spirits known as togny, who are associated with the hasina, the most sacred and highly revered of the dead.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/madagascar/madagascar3.html (2510 words)

	River kingfishers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dwarf Kingfisher is sometimes placed in the monospecific genus Myioceyx, and sometimes with the Pygmy Kingfishers in Ispidina.
		However, molecular analysis (Moyle, 2006) suggests that the Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher is most closely related to the Malachite Kingfisher, and that the present arrangement into Alcedo and Ceyx needs to be reviewed as it seems not to reflect the actual relationships (for example, the Azure Kingfisher is closer to Ceyx erithacus).
		Moyle, Robert G. (2006): A Molecular Phylogeny of Kingfishers (Alcedinidae) With Insights into Early Biogeographic History.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=River_kingfishers (208 words)

	Madagascar Animals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Real Animals of Madagascar Madagascar -- an off the coast of Africa -- has some of the world's...
		Photographs of plants, animals, and landscapes from dry tropical habitats in the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia.
		Madagascar is the home of some of the most interesting and unique animals in the world.
	www.kitsworld.com /madagascar-animals.html (200 words)

	Our Far Flung Correspondents (Madagascar)
		I imagined Madagascar, that huge island out in the Indian Ocean, as a lost world, where all kinds of fantastic holdovers from earlier times lived on.
		But some of the Gondwanaland forms survived on Madagascar and in Amazonia, among them the prototypes of the boa; today, there are many species of boa in the Americas, three on Madagascar, and none in tropical Africa.
		Ten special reserves were set aside (and more have since been added), but these protect only one per cent of the island, and that only theoretically, since in all of them poaching of timber and wildlife is virtually unchecked; the entire annual budget for maintaining the system is only a thousand dollars.
	www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com /pastdispatches/madagascar/printermadagascar.html (8471 words)

	MADAGASCAR - Part 2, African safaris, photo safaris - Fish Eagle Safaris
		In fact, we encountered a long row of these trucks, many of which were petroleum tankers, on the outskirts of Tana, waiting to enter the city from midnight onwards.
		I had the excellent chicken curry and Kathleen chose chicken with fresh ginger, both served with mounds of rice as is customary in Madagascar.
		Summing up the Madagascar experience very succinctly, he said, ‘My country is rich, but the people are poor’.
	www.fisheaglesafaris.com /mada_trip2.htm (1888 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - Madagascar: The Eighth Conti: Itinerary
		Sunset over the small lake, its central island thronged with Madagascar squacco herons and egrets in breeding plumage, is a spectacle to be cherished.
		During our visit, we are also on the lookout for such endemics as Madagascar wagtail, Madagascar white-eye, and Madagascar malachite kingfisher.
		Birding is also phenomenal, and past trips have recorded such specialties as Madagascar sandgrouse, white-browed owl, and the stately giant coua.
	www.zeco.com /destinations/madagascar_d.asp?dateid=297§ion=itinerary (1364 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- June 2002, week 3 (#45)
		Perinet is one of the more popular of Madagascar's parks, and one of the best places of all for birding, in our experience.
		The trip from Tana to Vakona Lodge gave us our first inkling of unease regarding the political situation in Madagascar-we had to drive along the roads leading to and past the mountain resort where the Supreme Court was meeting to hand down its final election results from the disputed December presidential election.
		It was a little worrisome to see so many animals housed together in such small cages, especially considering the volume of wild-caught herps that enter the pet trade, legally or illegally, from Madagascar, but we were assured that this facility was only a zoo.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0206c&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=4820 (1416 words)

	Madagascar Oct 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Berenty Reserve was equally exciting with highlights including a pair of Madagascar Cuckoo Hawks building a nest, Torotoroka Scops Owl at its day roost, and flyby Madagascar Sandgrouse on the Mandrare River.
		The playful antics of Verreaux's Sifaka and the confiding views of Ring-tailed Lemurs were certainly the mammalian highlights of Berenty, and we were able to approach amazing close to these wonderful creatures.
		One of the undisputed highlights was a remarkably close view of a pair of Schlegel's Asity at the nest; the eye-wattles on the male bird was strikingly colored.
	home.intekom.com /rockjumper/reports/Rockjumper_Report_Madagascar_Oct_2004.htm (860 words)

	Birdseekers Tours to Madagascar
		Our final bird before we exited the forest turned out to be a fantastic Blue Coua! Just before we were about to leave we were treated to the amazing yet somewhat mournful cry of a small group of Indri, Madagascars’s largest Lemur.
		Several Madagascar Coucals were watched sat out in the sun while Greater Vasa Parrots, a fly over Cuckoo Roller and two superb Madagascar Partridges were seen. The Benson’s Rock Thrush showed itself very well again before the lure of breakfast tempted us inside.
		There were other distraction in the form of hundreds of beautifully coloured butterflies — we must have seen at least ten species of swallowtail.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /birdseekers/feb05/Madagascar/Madagascar-2003.htm (10159 words)

	BIRDCHAT archives -- April 2002, week 1 (#72)
		The flights to Madagascar leave in the morning from Paris and arrive late in the evening (10 hour flight plus two hours time difference).
		This was a pleasant introduction to some of the more common Madagascar birds, as well as a chance to see some birds, and mammals, in captivity, some of which we would see elsewhere in the wild, and some not.
		The food was great, the staff delightful, and we got to enjoy up-close encounters with some of the chameleons that live in the garden.
	listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0204a&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=7479 (1064 words)

	COSTA RICA
		This is a place where evolution has run wild and it has such a high degree of endemism that it is truly like nowhere else on earth.
		This area is probably the best accessible site to see Madagascar’s rainforest endemics and it will need plenty of patience to seek out a selection of species that are generally only found here.
		This is a truly bizarre habitat and as we walk through the tangle of spiny Didieras, and pass by strange bloated baobabs, we will know that we are in for a rather unique experience.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/africamadagascartour2003.htm (1782 words)

	Avian Demography Unit: Bird Numbers 8(1) Article03
		This is the 'wet' region of Madagascar and, barring the first day, cool, rainy conditions prevailed during this first week.
		It is also here that the famous baobabs occur, Madagascar being home to seven of the world's nine baobab species.
		On leaving we were entertained, in true sundowner style, by a massive flock (2000+ birds) of ducks, ibises, herons and darters, all taking to the sky, circling and then resettling in the marsh.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/bn8_2_03.htm (1491 words)

	Madagascar Trip Report
		We took cold showers and dined at seven thirty, first hearing a pair of Madagascar Scops Owl but not seeing them as they were well up in the canopy.
		We therefore birded, seeing Sakalava Weaver and lots of Madagascar Bush Larks BUT Neil spotted a couple of plovers and YES they were Madagascar Plover in fact a pair.
		This species of lemur is found nowhere else in Madagascar, and is a very rare species discovered in 1986 and usually very difficult to see in the field without going to large stands of bamboo, which are long walks away.
	www.naturalist.co.uk /reports2000/madagascar.htm (7466 words)

	WWF - East African Marine - A Global Ecoregion
		Bird species such as the Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii), Greater crested tern (Thalasseus bergii), Masked booby (Sula dactylatra), and Brown noddy (Anous stolidus), and mollusk species such as the Pearl oyster (Pinctada margaritifera) and the Red helmet shell (Cypraecassis rufa) are also found here.
		Mangrove species include Crab plover (Dromas ardeola), African spoonbill (Platalea alba), Madagascar malachite kingfisher (Alcedo vintsioides), and Madagascar fish eagle (Haliaeëtus vociferoides).
		Agriculture and deforestation that have lead to severe erosion with flushing of sediments, affecting rivers and coral reef areas.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/east_african_marine.cfm (470 words)

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		Day 4 — 6th Oct Some of the group were up early and enjoying the fresh misty morning air.
		Day 8 — 10th Oct We were up at dawn for a look around the beautiful grounds of our hotel.
		From Tana airport we eventually caught our small flight to our final destination of Mahanjunga Day 20 — 22nd Oct We had a relaxing morning with a late breakfast in time to catch a boat at 10.00am where the tide was now right for us.
	www.birdwatchingtours.co.uk /reports/after_tour_docs/Madagascar-2003.doc (10496 words)

	Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Malagasy Kingfisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mangoverde World Bird Guide Species Page: Malagasy Kingfisher
		World Bird Guide :: Kingfishers :: Malagasy Kingfisher
		Alternate common name(s): Diademed Kingfisher, Madagascar Kingfisher, Madagascar Malachite-kingfisher
	www.mangoverde.com /wbg/spec/spec89-12.html (48 words)

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