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Amazon Kingfisher
Chloroceryle amazona · Family Alcedinidae
Chloroceryle amazona
Family Alcedinidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 237,302
- Countries and territories with records
- 26
About this species
This species has 237,302 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (23.6%), Costa Rica (21%), Colombia (13.4%), Peru (7.2%) and Argentina (5.9%); together they account for 71.1% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 0.24% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Chloroceryle amazona combines the genus name Chloroceryle with the species epithet amazona. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Chloroceryle; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Chloroceryle americana, Chloroceryle aenea and Chloroceryle inda.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 104 species of the family Alcedinidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Megaceryle alcyon. Its record count is 1.5 times the family average (157,707). The family Alcedinidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.