Gray-headed Kingfisher
Halcyon leucocephala
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,960
- Most observed in
- 🇰🇪 Kenya
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The grey-headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) is a species of bird in the kingfisher family, Alcedinidae. It is found across large parts of Africa and southern Arabia, from Mauritania through Senegal and the Gambia, east to Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia, and south all the way through to South Africa. It is also found in islands off the African coast such as the Cape Verde islands and Zanzibar.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Grey-headed kingfisher”.