White-bellied Kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster)
About the White-bellied Kingfisher
The white-bellied kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) 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. There are three subspecies: Corythornis leucogaster bowdleri (Neumann, 1908) – far north-eastern Guinea, Mali and Upper Guinean forests Corythornis leucogaster leucogaster (Fraser, 1843) – Nigeria to north west Angola, Bioko Island Corythornis leucogaster leopoldi (Dubois, AJC, 1905) – east Congo to south Uganda and northwest Zambia
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 9 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-ND · 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Ghana, Zambia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.