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The genus Halcyon was introduced by the English naturalist and artist William Swainson in 1821. He named the type species as the woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis). [2] "Halcyon" is a name for a bird in Greek legend generally associated with the kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the bird nested on the sea, which it calmed in ...
Halcyon leucocephala ( Statius Müller , 1776) 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 .
Halcyon is a genus of Kingfishers in the subfamily Halcyoninae. Pages in category "Halcyon (genus)" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ...
Genus Halcyon; Ruddy kingfisher, Halcyon coromanda; White-throated kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis; Brown-breasted kingfisher, Halcyon gularis; Javan kingfisher, Halcyon cyanoventris; Chocolate-backed kingfisher, Halcyon badia; Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata; Grey-headed kingfisher, Halcyon leucocephala; Brown-hooded kingfisher ...
The current genus Halcyon was introduced by the English naturalist and artist William Swainson in 1821, with the woodland kingfisher as the type species. [4] Three subspecies are recognised: [5] H. s. fuscopileus Reichenow, 1906 – Sierra Leone to south Nigeria and south to DR Congo and north Angola
[4] [5] The present genus Halcyon was introduced by the English naturalist and artist William Swainson in 1821. [6] Halcyon is a name for a bird in Greek mythology generally associated with the kingfisher. The specific epithet smyrnensis is an adjective for the city of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey). [7] Five subspecies are recognised: [8]
The mangrove kingfisher (Halcyon senegaloides) is a kingfisher in the genus Halcyon.It is similar in appearance to the woodland kingfisher.It is found along the eastern coastline of Sub-Saharan Africa, living in woodland, along rivers, and in estuaries and mangrove.
The genus name Halcyon comes from a bird in Greek legend generally associated with the kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the halcyon nested on the sea, which it calmed in order to lay its eggs on a floating nest. [5] The species' name chelicuti derives from Chelicut in Ethiopia, the location at which Stanley's type specimen was ...