White-bellied Kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster)

Family
Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Fraser, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, S�o Tom� e Principe (B), Sierra Leone, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

White-bellied Kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) [XC719054]
by Peter Boesman from Ankasa NR, Ghana (call)

White-bellied Kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) [XC363511]
by Dries Van de Loock from Parc National de la For\u00eat du Banco, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (call)

Subspecies
White-bellied Kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) and Principe Kingfisher (Corythornis nais) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include nais as a subspecies of White-bellied Kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster).

Closely related to Malachite Kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus) and Madagascar Kingfisher (Corythornis vintsioides), and sometimes placed with them in a separate genus Corythornis. Also closely related to Principe Kingfisher (Corythornis nais) and Sao Tome Kingfisher (Corythornis thomensis), either or both of which have often been treated as conspecific with this species. Population from southern Nigeria to northern Angola formerly separated as subspecies batesi, but appears indistinguishable from nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

bowdleri (Neumann, 1908) - Southern Mauritania (Guidimaka), south-western Mali (Mandingo Mts), and Guinea to southern Ghana.
leucogaster (Fraser, 1843) - South-western Nigeria to southern Cameroon, Bioko I (Fernando P�o), Gabon and north-western Angola.
leopoldi (Dubois, AJC, 1905) - Congo Basin in southern Central African Republic and from Zaire east to southern Uganda (Sango Bay, Mabira Forest).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-bellied Kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) - 10 files

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