Giant kingfisher | |
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Male, Lake Naivasha, Kenya | |
Female near Triangle, Zimbabwe | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Coraciiformes |
Family: | Alcedinidae |
Subfamily: | Cerylinae |
Genus: | Megaceryle |
Species: | M. maxima
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Binomial name | |
Megaceryle maxima (Pallas, 1769)
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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.