Tree Kingfishers
Halcyoninae
The tree kingfishers, also called wood kingfishers or Halcyoninae, are the most numerous of the three subfamilies of birds in the kingfisher family, with around 70 species divided into 12 genera, including several species of kookaburras. The subfamily appears to have arisen in Indochina and Maritime Southeast Asia and then spread to many areas around the world. Tree kingfishers are widespread through Asia and Australasia, but also appear in Africa and the islands of the Pacific...
11 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 71 known species
Kookaburras
genusDacelo
Typical Woodland Kingfishers
genusHalcyon
Indo-Pacific Kingfishers
genusTodiramphus
Large-billed Kingfishers
genusPelargopsis
Wood Kingfishers
genusActenoides
Lacedo
genusLacedo
Paradise Kingfishers
genusTanysiptera
Lilac Kingfishers
genusCittura
Yellow-billed and Mountain Kingfishers
genusSyma
Melidora
genusMelidora
Caridonax
genusCaridonax
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1542375.