Blue-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica) [XC285258]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Sempaya, Semuliki National Park, Bundibugyo, Western Region, Uganda (song)
Blue-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon malimbica) [XC317569]
by Philippe Verbelen from Parc National de la Como\u00e9, near Kafolo., Ivory Coast (song)
Subspecies
Population from Senegal, described as subspecies fortis, now included in torquata. Proposed subspecies prenticei, from southern Sudan, north-eastern Zaire and Uganda, inseparable from nominate.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
torquata Swainson, 1837 - Senegal east to south-western Mali and south to northern Guinea.
forbesi Sharpe, 1892 - Sierra Leone east to southern Nigeria, Bioko I (Fernando Póo) and south-western Cameroon.
dryas Hartlaub, 1854 - Príncipe I and, at least formerly, Sío Tomé I.
malimbica (Shaw, 1811) - Southern Cameroon east to south-western Sudan, western Uganda and north-western Tanzania, and south to northern Angola and north-western Zambia; probably this subspecies in south-western Ethiopia.