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 LC    Grey-headed Kingfisher* Id (Atlas):
    Halcyon leucocephala

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-headed Kingfisher, Gray-headed Kingfisher, Grey-hooded Kingfisher, Gray-hooded Kingfisher, Chestnut-bellied Kingfisher(!)

Family
Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Müller, 1776)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry forest and shrubland, mangoves. From sea-level - 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia (B), Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen (B), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to United Arab Emirates.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (49)...)

 
Grey-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) [XC606268]
     by isaac kilusu from Mandegee farm, oloitoktok, Kenya (call)

 
Grey-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) [XC449409]
     by Frank Lambert from Ecoboma Lodge, Manyara Region, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Black-capped Kingfisher (Halcyon pileata). Proposed subspecies centralis, described from Kenya and northern Tanzania, now included within subspecies hyacinthina.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

  • acteon (Lesson, R, 1830)   -  Cape Verde Is (Brava, Fogo, Santiago).
  • leucocephala (Müller, 1776)   -  Senegambia east to Eritrea and Somalia, south to Gabon, north-eastern Zaire, L Victoria basin and northern Tanzania.
  • semicaerulea (Gmelin, JF, 1788)   -  South-western Arabia, from Mecca south to Yemen and east to Oman (Taqa); possibly winters in Somalia.
  • hyacinthina Reichenow, 1900   -  South-eastern Somalia, coastal Kenya and Tanzania (south to Dar es Salaam and west to Pare Mts and Kilosa).
  • pallidiventris Cabanis, 1880   -  Zaire and Tanzania (except east) south to northern Namibia and north-eastern South Africa; southern populations migrate north to Zaire, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Grey-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) - 10 files


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