Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis)

Other Names (World)
Woodland Kingfisher, Angola Kingfisher, Angolan Woodland Kingfisher, Red-and-black-billed Kingfisher, Senegal Kingfisher

Family
Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Size
22 - 23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and moist forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (45)...)

Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) [XC346819]
by Derek Solomon from Okavango river area, Rundu, Namibia (song)

Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) [XC18961]
by Jeremy Hegge from Mahango, Namibia (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis). Southern subspecies cyanoleuca has in past been treated as a full species. Subspecies fuscopilea sometimes merged with nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) - Senegambia east to Ethiopia and south to western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
fuscopilea Reichenow, 1906 - Sierra Leone to southern Nigeria, Bioko I (Fernando P�o) and Congo Basin.
cyanoleuca (Vieillot, 1818) - North-western Tanzania south to Angola, Botswana and north-eastern South Africa.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Woodland Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) - 10 files

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