Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Halcyon albiventris
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Genus
- Halcyon
- eBird Code
- brhkin1
Vocalizations
Sunčana Bradley · CC_BY_4_0
Subspecies (4)
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Halcyon albiventris albiventris
southern South Africa; some wintering north to southeastern Zimbabwe; intergrades with vociferans in KwaZulu-Natal
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Halcyon albiventris orientalis
coastal Somalia to northern Botswana and Mozambique
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Halcyon albiventris prentissgrayi
Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo to southeastern Kenya, Angola, and Zambia
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Halcyon albiventris vociferans
eastern Botswana to southern Mozambique, southward to central and eastern South Africa
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.