Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.

Vagrant to Grenada.

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

Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (113)...)

Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) [XC360844]
by Breno Dias Vitorino from Colos\u00f3, Sucre, Colombia (call)

Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) [XC393123]
by Paul Marvin from Old Gamboa Road, Panama Province, Panama (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Giant Kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima), Crested Kingfisher (Megaceryle lugubris) and Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon). .

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

torquata (Linnaeus, 1766) - Extreme southern Texas and north-western Mexico south to Peru, south-eastern Bolivia, north-eastern Argentina and Uruguay, also Margarita I (off northern Venezuela) and Trinidad.
stictipennis (Lawrence, 1885) - Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique and Grenada, possibly also St Kitts.
stellata (Meyen, 1834) - Southern Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego; migrates north to central Chile and north-eastern Argentina.

References
See References.

Files:

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