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Ringed kingfisher        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Ringed kingfishers are the largest of the New World kingfishers, ranging from south Texas into southern South America.   In Panama most of them were quite shy, and I photographed one of these birds (below) out of a car window while waiting to cross a one-way bridge along the Panama Canal near Gamboa.   Others (above) were photographed from a boat on the Manu River in southeastern Peru.   Another common Neotropical kingfisher is the smaller green kingfisher.

  • Canon 30D or 7D, Canon 500 mm IS lens plus 1.4X converter, fill-in flash on some birds (2006, 2013)