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Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana)

Green Kingfisher
Photo: Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Green Kingfisher

The green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) is a species of "water kingfisher" in the subfamily Cerylinae of the family Alcedinidae. It is found from southern Texas in the United States south through Central America, and in every mainland South American country except Chile.

Source: Green kingfisher on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Green Kingfisher. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Call (1:16) via xeno-canto.org/250627, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 147 recordings for this species in total.

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