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Kingfishers are birds of the three closely related families Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water or belted kingfishers). There are about 90 species of kingfisher. All have large heads, long pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. They are found throughout the world.

The taxonomy of the three families is complex and rather controversial. Although commonly assigned to the order Coraciiformes, from this level down confusion sets in.

The kingfishers were traditionally treated as one family, Alcedinidae with three subfamilies, but following the 1990s revolution in bird taxonomy, the three former subfamilies are now usually elevated to familial level; a move supported by chromosome and DNA-DNA hybridisation studies, but challenged on the grounds that all three groups are monophyletic with respect to the other Coraciiformes; which leads to them being grouped as the suborder Alcedines.

The tree kingfishers have been previously given the familial name Dacelonidae but Halcyonidae has priority.

Kingfishers live in both woodland and water. The Laughing Kookaburra, at 45 cm the world's largest kingfisher, is a woodland bird, while the European Kingfisher Alcedo atthis is always found near fresh water.

Kingfishers that live near water hunt small fish by diving. They also eat crayfish, frogs, and insects. Wood kingfishers eat reptiles. Kingfishers of all three families beat their prey to death, either by whipping it against a tree or by dropping it on a stone.

The Old World tropics and Australasia are the core area for this group. Europe and North America are very poorly represented with only one common kingfisher, (European and Belted Kingfishers respectively), and a couple of uncommon or very local species each: (Ringed Kingfisher and Green Kingfisher in the SE USA, Pied Kingfisher and White-breasted Kingfisher in SE Europe).

Even tropical South America has only five species plus wintering Belted Kingfisher. In comparison, the tiny African country of The Gambia has eight resident species in its 120 by 20 mile area.

The six species occurring in the Americas are four closely related green kingfishers in the genus Chloroceryle, and two large crested kingfishers in the genus Megaceryle, suggesting that the sparse representaion in the western hemisphere evolved from just two original colonising species.

Taxonmony

Phylum: chordata
Class: aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family:

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Belted Kingfisher
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Gough, G.A., Sauer, J.R., Iliff, M. Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter. 1998. Version 97.1. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
Belted Kingfisher Song

Belted Kingfisher
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Rouge River Valley
Belted Kingfisher Audio Clip

Common Kingfisher
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Hong Kong Birdwatching society
Common Kingfisher

Forest Kingfisher
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ABC Archives and Library Services
Forest Kingfisher

Sacred Kingfisher
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ABC Archives and Library Services
Sacred Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher
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Naturesongs.com
Belted Kingfisher call

Kingfisher
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Kiwi Wildlife Tours
Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher
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NatureSound Studio
RealAudio segment from beginning of guide "Marshland Bird Walk" by Lang Elliott

Common Kingfisher
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Oiseaux.net
Common Kingfisher sound

Common Kingfisher
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IndiaBirds.com
Common Kingfisher

Pied Kingfisher
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IndiaBirds.com
Pied Kingfisher

Stork-Billed Kingfisher
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IndiaBirds.com
Stork-Billed Kingfisher

White-throated Kingfisher
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IndiaBirds.com
White-throated Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher
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Florida Bird Songs
Belted Kingfisher call

Kingfisher
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Kingfisher call

Ruddy Kingfisher
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Ruddy Kingfisher call

Kingfisher
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Ceský rozhlas Online
Kingfisher - Ledňáček říční

Kingfisher
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Ceský rozhlas Online
Kingfisher - Hlasy mláďat ledňáčka říčního

Belted Kingfisher
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Wildlife of the Charles River
Belted Kingfisher call

Belted Kingfisher
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Minnesota's Pine to Prairie Birding Trail
Belted Kingfisher call

Belted Kingfisher
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Calgary's Weaselhead Society
Belted Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher
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Calgary's Weaselhead Society
Belted Kingfisher

Kingfisher
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Edmund Rice Primary School
Kingfisher call

Kingfisher
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British Garden Birds
Kingfisher sound

Belted Kingfisher
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Les Oiseaux du Québec
audio clip of Belted Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher
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Bird Friends Of Lake Murray And San Diego County
Belted Kingfisher call

Common Kingfisher
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Vogelkundliche Beobachtungsstation Untermain e.V.
Common Kingfisher call

Belted Kingfisher
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Sound recordings with scientific data. To view spectrograms, follow this link

Belted Kingfisher
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Tony Phillips: Songs and calls of some New York State birds
Belted Kingfisher vocalization. ""A loud, dry rattle" (Peterson) Long Island, August, 1996".

Belted Kingfisher
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Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas
Belted Kingfisher call; from John Feith's Bird Song Ear Training Guide CD

Belted Kingfisher
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Tony Phillips: Songs and calls of some New York State birds
Belted Kingfisher

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