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Kingfishers

Order: Coraciiformes
Suborder: Alcedines - The Kingfishers

Species on page

Alcedinidae - river kingfishers
+ Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

+ Blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting)
+ Little Kingfisher (Alcedo pusilla)

Halcyonidae - tree kingfishers

+ White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
+ Striped kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti)

Cerylidae - water kingfishers

+ Pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis)
+ Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)

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Family: Alcedinidae
River Kingfishers

Tasmania

kookaburra

kookaburra
Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
En route to Cradle Mountain
April 5, 2012

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when the joke falls flat

kookaburra
Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
En route to Cradle Mountain
April 5, 2012

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Little Kingfisher (Alcedo pusilla)

Australia

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Little Kingfisher (Alcedo pusilla)
Daintree, Australia
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Family: Halcyonidae
Tree Kingfishers

Striped kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti)

Fishing royalty

kingfisher

Kingfisher
Striped kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti)
July, 2012

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White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)

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White-throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
India

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Bharatpur, India
December 26, 2004
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Family: Cerylidae
Water Kingfishers

Botswana

Pied Kingfisher

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Ceryle rudis

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Egypt

Pied Kingfisher
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Ceryle rudis

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Alcedinidae - River Kingfishers

Blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting)

Borneo

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South Africa

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The Pantanal

Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)

Ringed king

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Ringed kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata)

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Kingfisher

kingfisher

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modified: May 29, 2015
created: November 25, 2005
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
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