Guam kingfisher
| Guam kingfisher | |
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| At Smithsonian's National Zoo, Washington, D.C. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Alcedinidae |
| Subfamily: | Halcyoninae |
| Genus: | Todiramphus |
| Species: | T. cinnamominus
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| Binomial name | |
| Todiramphus cinnamominus (Swainson, 1821)
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The Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), called sihek in Chamorro, is a species of kingfisher from the United States Territory of Guam. It is restricted to a captive breeding program following its extinction in the wild due primarily to predation by the introduced brown tree snake.