Half-collared Kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata)

Family
Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Swainson, 1823

Habitat
Inlands wetlands, freshwater, brackish and saline lagoons, dry forest. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Ethiopia and adjacent south-eastern Sudan, and from Angola (Mossamedes) east to Tanzania and south to north-eastern Namibia, eastern Botswana and north-eastern and southern South Africa. Rare breeding records from Kenya.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

Half-collared Kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata) [XC645323]
by Hans Matheve from Riet River, near Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa (song)

Half-collared Kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata) [XC379060]
by Charles Hesse from East London, Amatole, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). Formerly considered conspecific with Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). Several subspecies have been described, including tephria (equator to R Save in Mozambique) and heuglini (Dire Daoua in Ethiopia), but regional variations in wing length and bill depth are slight and seem insufficient to warrant racial separation.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

heuglini Laubmann, 1925 - Ethiopia.
semitorquata Swainson, 1823 - Ethiopia; Angola to Tanzania, south to Mozambique and southern South Africa.
tephria Clancey, 1951 - Angola to Tanzania and Mozambique.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Half-collared Kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata) - 10 files

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