Our guide had alerted us. He had heard a call from a Shining-blue kingfisher. So I was on high alert. And suddenly I discovered it between two tree trunks at a reasonable distance. I managed to maneuver the camera so that I got the whole bird in my picture - one of my "target birds" on this trip - and also from the "right" side so that you can see the whole back with its two blue shades! "I've never seen it perching for so long!" the guide said in surprise. By the way, note the unusually large and black beak - almost unique for kingfishers as far as I know. (Its close relative, the Half-collared kingfisher, Alcedo semitorquata, also has it). The Shining-blue kingfisher has been characterized as "generally uncommon, also solitary and shy."