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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Halcyon
- Image
- Halcyon leucocephala MHNT ZOO 2010 11 160 RdN Santiago Cap-Vert.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Halcyon leucocephala
- Commons category
- Halcyon leucocephala
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- Halcyon leucocephala
- taxon common name
- martim-caçador-de-barrete-cinzento
- litter size
- 3.5
- short name
- H. leucocephala
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
The grey-headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) is a species of bird in the kingfisher family, Alcedinidae. It is found across large parts of Africa and southern Arabia, from Mauritania through Senegal and the Gambia, east to Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia, and south all the way through to South Africa. It is also found in islands off the African coast such as the Cape Verde islands and Zanzibar.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grey-headed Kingfisher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.