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Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Halcyon albiventris · Family Alcedinidae
Halcyon albiventris
Family Alcedinidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 224,408
- Countries and territories with records
- 20
About this species
This species has 224,408 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (83.4%), Zimbabwe (4%), Zambia (2.9%), Tanzania (2%) and Mozambique (1.8%); together they account for 94% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.47% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Halcyon albiventris combines the genus name Halcyon with the species epithet albiventris. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Halcyon; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Halcyon smyrnensis, Halcyon senegalensis and Halcyon chelicuti.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 104 species of the family Alcedinidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Megaceryle alcyon. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (157,707). The family Alcedinidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.