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 LC    Shining Blue Kingfisher* Id (Atlas):
    Alcedo quadribrachys

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Shining-blue Kingfisher, Shining Blue Kingfisher, Shining Kingfisher

Family
Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
Bonaparte, 1850

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia.

Vagrant to Kenya.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (6)...)

 
Shining-blue Kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys) [XC581109]
     by Hans Matheve from Nyachisala Forest, Kakoma, Mwinilunga, Northwestern Province, Zambia (call)

 
Shining-blue Kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys) [XC144127]
     by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Cavalla River, Grand Gedeh, Liberia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx azureus) and Bismarck Kingfisher (Ceyx websteri), and possibly also Blue-eared Kingfisher (Alcedo meninting).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • quadribrachys Bonaparte, 1850   -  Senegambia to western Nigeria (east to R Niger).
  • guentheri Sharpe, 1892   -  South-eastern Nigeria east to extreme southern Sudan and Uganda (L Victoria), and south to northern Angola and north-western Zambia.



References
See References.


Files:
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