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Giant kingfisher
Male, Lake Naivasha, Kenya
Female near Triangle, Zimbabwe
Conservation status
Giant kingfisher
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Cerylinae
Genus: Megaceryle
Species:
M. maxima
Binomial name
Megaceryle maxima
(Pallas, 1769)
     distribution

The giant kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima) is the largest kingfisher in Africa, where it is a resident breeding bird over most of the continent south of the Sahara Desert, other than the arid southwest.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Megaceryle maxima". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22683616A92991520. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22683616A92991520.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

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