Birds of the World

○ ← CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae (Kingfishers) →

Genus: Alcedo (8 species)


Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) Range: PAL, OR, AU: widespread, also n AF, e New Guinea, Bismarck Arch. and Solomon Is. Japanese Gardens, Singapore
Photograph by Wokoti © All Rights Reserved.


Cerulean Kingfisher (Alcedo coerulescens) Range: OR, AU: s Sumatra, Java and Bali, Kangean Is. (n of Bali) and Lombok to Flores (w, c Lesser Sundas) Java, Indonesia
Photograph by JJ Harrison Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo euryzona) Critically Endangered Range: OR: Java


Blyth's Kingfisher (Alcedo hercules) Near Threatened Range: OR: e Nepal to c Vietnam Samdrup Jongkha, Bhutan
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.


Blue-eared Kingfisher (Alcedo meninting) Male Range: OR, AU: widespread Singapore
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Blue-eared Kingfisher (Alcedo meninting) Female Range: OR, AU: widespread Singapore
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.

Female may have a red bill.


Malaysian Blue-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo peninsulae) Male Near Threatened Range: OR: s Myanmar, Malay Pen., Sumatra and Borneo Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Malaysian Blue-banded Kingfisher (Alcedo peninsulae) Female Near Threatened Range: OR: s Myanmar, Malay Pen., Sumatra and Borneo Malaysia
Photograph by Daniel Koh (Singapore) © All Rights Reserved.


Shining-blue Kingfisher (Alcedo quadribrachys guentheri) Range: AF: c, w Loango National Park, Gabon
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Half-collared Kingfisher (Alcedo semitorquata) Range: AF: Ethiopia, Angola to Tanzania, s to Mozambique and s South Africa Malawi
Photograph by Francesco Veronesi Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.

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