Striped Kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti)

Family
Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Stanley, 1814)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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 (46)...)

Striped Kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti) [XC48432]
by Derek Solomon from Akagera Lodge, Rwanda (call)

Striped Kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti) [XC443033]
by Louis A. Hansen from Research Flats on campus, University of Dar es salaam, Tanzania (song)

Subspecies
Previously placed in monospecific genus Chelicutia. Subspecies intergrade; a certain amount of geographical variation in dorsal coloration does not seem sufficient to warrant recognition of proposed subspecies hylobia (western Zaire, north-western Angola) and damarensis (southern Angola east to Mozambique and Transvaal).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

eremogiton Hartert, 1921 - Sahel zone from south-central Mali and northern Nigeria east to Sudan.
chelicuti (Stanley, 1814) - Southern Mauritania to north-western and southern Somalia, south to north-eastern Namibia, Botswana and northern and north-eastern South Africa (Natal).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Striped Kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti) - 10 files

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