Brown-breasted Kingfisher

When to see the Brown-breasted Kingfisher

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

Where to see the Brown-breasted Kingfisher

The map shades 1 country 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 India.

About the Brown-breasted Kingfisher

The brown-breasted kingfisher is a tree kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, where it is widely distributed. This kingfisher is a resident over much of its range.

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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. Chocolate-backed KingfisherHalcyon badiaThe chocolate-backed kingfisher has the typical stocky kingfisher shape with dark upper parts and pure white underparts. Blue-breasted KingfisherHalcyon malimbicaThe blue-breasted kingfisher is a tree kingfisher widely distributed across Equatorial Africa.