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The grey-headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) is a species of kingfisher that has a wide distribution from the Cape Verde Islands off the north-west coast of Africa to Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, east to Ethiopia, Somalia and southern Arabia and south to South Africa.
Brown-breasted kingfisher: the Philippines Halcyon cyanoventris: Javan kingfisher: Java and Bali Halcyon badia: Chocolate-backed kingfisher: western Sub-Saharan Africa. Halcyon pileata: Black-capped kingfisher: India east to China, Korea and Southeast Asia Halcyon leucocephala: Grey-headed kingfisher
Actenoides is a genus of kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae.. The genus Actenoides was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850. The type species is Hombron's kingfisher (Actenoides hombroni). [2]
The Vanuatu kingfisher or chestnut-bellied kingfisher (Todiramphus farquhari) is a medium-sized kingfisher found only on the islands of Espiritu Santo, Malo and Malakula in Vanuatu. It is dark blue above with richly coloured orange underparts. There is a white spot in front of the eye and a broad black band on the side of the head.
Shining-blue kingfisher, Alcedo quadribrachys; Malachite kingfisher, Corythornis cristatus; African pygmy kingfisher, Ispidina picta; Gray-headed kingfisher, Halcyon leucocephala; Woodland kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis; Blue-breasted kingfisher, Halcyon malimbica (A) Brown-hooded kingfisher, Halcyon albiventris (A) Striped kingfisher ...
Brown-winged kingfisher, Sundarbans, West Bengal, India. The tree kingfishers, also called wood kingfishers or Halcyoninae, are the most numerous of the three subfamilies of birds in the kingfisher family, with around 70 species divided into 12 genera, including several species of kookaburras.
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The Pacific kingfisher was formerly considered as a subspecies of the collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris). A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2015 found that T. chloris was paraphyletic. [9] In the changes to create monophyletic species, T. sacer was promoted to species status and many of the T. chloris subspecies were moved to T ...