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Pied Kingfisher
Ceryle rudis · Family Alcedinidae
Ceryle rudis
Family Alcedinidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 540,540
- Countries and territories with records
- 85
About this species
This species has 540,540 occurrence records from 85 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (32%), South Africa (27.3%), Israel (7.9%), Kenya (4%) and Uganda (2.9%); together they account for 74.2% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.28% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ceryle rudis combines the genus name Ceryle with the species epithet rudis. It is the only species of the genus Ceryle in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 104 species of the family Alcedinidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Megaceryle alcyon. Its record count is 3.4 times the family average (157,707). The family Alcedinidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.