Blue-breasted Kingfisher

When to see the Blue-breasted Kingfisher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-breasted Kingfisher

The map shades 26 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Kenya.

About the Blue-breasted Kingfisher

The blue-breasted kingfisher is a tree kingfisher widely distributed across Equatorial Africa. This kingfisher is essentially resident, but retreats from drier savanna areas to wetter habitats in the dry season.

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Easily confused with

Ruddy KingfisherHalcyon coromandaReaching approximately 25 cm, the ruddy kingfisher has a very large, bright red bill and equally red legs. Brown-breasted KingfisherHalcyon gularisThe brown-breasted kingfisher is a tree kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, where it is widely distributed. Chocolate-backed KingfisherHalcyon badiaThe chocolate-backed kingfisher has the typical stocky kingfisher shape with dark upper parts and pure white underparts.