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Green kingfisher
Chloroceryle americana · Family Alcedinidae
Chloroceryle americana
Family Alcedinidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 358,151
- Countries and territories with records
- 26
About this species
This species has 358,151 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (19.3%), Costa Rica (18.6%), Mexico (12%), Brazil (9.3%) and Colombia (8.4%); together they account for 67.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.0062% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Chloroceryle americana combines the genus name Chloroceryle with the species epithet americana. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Chloroceryle; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Chloroceryle amazona, Chloroceryle aenea and Chloroceryle inda.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 104 species of the family Alcedinidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Megaceryle alcyon. Its record count is 2.3 times the family average (157,707). The family Alcedinidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.