Shining-blue Kingfisher

What the Shining-blue Kingfisher sounds like

Recorded by Ben Phalan · Call · Cavalla River, Grand Gedeh, Liberia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Shining-blue 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 Shining-blue Kingfisher

The map shades 19 countries with regular records, and 3 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 Burkina Faso, Gambia, Tanzania.

About the Shining-blue Kingfisher

The shining-blue kingfisher is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is found in tropical Africa.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Javan Blue-banded KingfisherAlcedo euryzonaThe Javan blue-banded kingfisher, is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Alcedininae. Cerulean KingfisherAlcedo coerulescensThe cerulean kingfisher is a small kingfisher with a length of 13 cm (5.1 in). Blyth's KingfisherAlcedo herculesBlyth's kingfisher is between 22 and 23 cm (8+5⁄8 and 9 in) in length, making it the largest of the Alcedo kingfishers.