Animals / Bird

Belted kingfisher

Megaceryle alcyon · Alcedinidae

The belted kingfisher is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America.

Where the Belted kingfisher lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in California, Florida, Texas, British Columbia, Washington and Ontario.

See the Belted kingfisher’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 7,049,877 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.