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Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus)

Sacred Kingfisher
Photo: Rosa Stewart via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Sacred Kingfisher

The sacred kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) is a medium-sized woodland kingfisher that inhabits mangroves, woodlands, forests and river valleys in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the western Pacific.

Source: Sacred kingfisher on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 87 recordings for this species: 31 CC BY-NC-SA · 22 CC BY-NC-ND. 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.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Australia, France, Indonesia, New Zealand in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.