Brown-hooded Kingfisher (Halcyon) [XC833965]
by Ehren Eksteen from Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana (call)
Brown-hooded Kingfisher (Halcyon albiventris) [XC854455]
by Marc Anderson from North Swaka Forest Reserve, Mkushi, Central Province, Zambia (call, duet)
Subspecies
Western populations described as a separate subspecies, hylophyla, on basis of slightly darker coloration, but considered insufficiently distinct from prentissgrayi. Population from southern Somalia and north-eastern Kenya described as subspecies erlangeri, but apparently indistinguishable from orientalis.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
prentissgrayi Bowen, 1930 - Eastern Gabon, southern Congo, south-western Zaire, western Angola and southern Kenya, west-central Tanzania to northern Zambia.
orientalis Peters, W, 1868 - Coastal lowlands from southern Somalia to Mozambique, inland to Malawi, southern Zambia, Zimbabwe and northern Botswana.
vociferans Clancey, 1952 - Eastern Botswana east to southern Mozambique, south to Orange Free State and Natal.
albiventris (Scopoli, 1786) - Natal to south-western Cape Province; migrates to southern Zimbabwe.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet