Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Halcyon malimbica
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Alcedinidae
- Genus
- Halcyon
- eBird Code
- blbkin4
Subspecies (4)
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Halcyon malimbica dryas
Príncipe Island and (formerly) São Tomé Island (Gulf of Guinea)
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Halcyon malimbica forbesi
Sierra Leone to eastern Nigeria and far western Cameroon; Bioko Island
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Halcyon malimbica malimbica
riverine woodland of Cameroon to Uganda and Zambia
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Halcyon malimbica torquata
southern Senegambia and Guinea-Bissau to far western Mali
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.