Blue-eared Kingfisher

It is darker crowned than the common kingfisher, with darker rufous underparts, and lacks that species' rufous ear stripe. Adult males have an all-dark bill and females a reddish lower mandible, and young birds have a reddish bill with whitish tips. Several subspecies differ in measurement and colour shade (Wikipedia, general species account). It nests in a tunnel about a metre long in a stream bank, holding five to seven white eggs (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).

Blue-eared Kingfisher is a small kingfisher of dense shaded forest, where it hunts in small streams. It usually perches on branches overhanging densely shaded streams before diving to catch prey, which includes crustaceans, dragonfly larvae and fish. The species is found in Asia, ranging across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is found mainly in dense shaded forests where it hunts in small streams. (Wikipedia, general species account).