Rollers, Kingfishers, and Allies
Coraciiformes
The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colorful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers, the motmots, and the todies. They generally have syndactyly, with three forward-pointing toes (and toes 3 & 4 fused at their base), though in many kingfishers one of these is missing.
6 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 185 known species
Kingfishers
familyAlcedinidae
Bee-eaters
familyMeropidae
Rollers
familyCoraciidae
Motmots
familyMomotidae
Todies
familyTodidae
Ground-Rollers
familyBrachypteraciidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 2114.