Species profile—Dacelo leachii (blue-winged kookaburra)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Halcyonidae (kookaburras and kingfishers) → Dacelo leachii (blue-winged kookaburra)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Halcyonidae (kookaburras and kingfishers)
- Scientific name
- Dacelo leachii Vigors & Horsfield, 1826
- Common name
- blue-winged kookaburra
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1766
- Alternate name(s)
- howling jackass
barking jackass - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1766
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.