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Stork-billed Kingfisher
Pelargopsis capensis · Family Alcedinidae
Pelargopsis capensis
Family Alcedinidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 144,568
- Countries and territories with records
- 21
About this species
This species has 144,568 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (66.3%), Malaysia (9.2%), Sri Lanka (6.5%), Singapore (6.1%) and Thailand (4.1%); together they account for 92.3% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.16% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Pelargopsis capensis combines the genus name Pelargopsis with the species epithet capensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Pelargopsis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Pelargopsis amauroptera and Pelargopsis melanorhyncha.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 104 species of the family Alcedinidae. This species ranks 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Megaceryle alcyon. Its record count is close to the family average (157,707). The family Alcedinidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.