White-bellied Kingfisher

When to see the White-bellied Kingfisher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-bellied Kingfisher

The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 2 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 Tanzania, Mali.

About the White-bellied Kingfisher

The white-bellied kingfisher is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Alcedininae that occurs in Mali and throughout the African tropical rainforest. The first formal description of the species was by the British zoologist Louis Fraser in 1843 under the binomial name Halcyon leucogaster.

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Easily confused with

Madagascar Pygmy KingfisherCorythornis madagascariensisThe Madagascar pygmy kingfisher is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. Malagasy KingfisherCorythornis vintsioidesThe Malagasy kingfisher or Madagascar kingfisher is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae that is found in Madagascar, Mayotte and the Comoros. Malachite KingfisherCorythornis cristatusIt is a small kingfisher, around 13 cm (5.1 in) in length.