African Pygmy-Kingfisher
Some rights reserved Rainbirder
Scientific name: Ispidina picta
Status:
Distribution:
Description:
Call: high-pitched insect-like tsip-tsip
Food:
Similar species:
Other names:
References:
[1] Hockey, P. A. R. (1997). Africa’s kingfishers: A guide to their identification. Africa — Birds & Birding, 2(1), 61-65.
[2] Sharpe, R. B. (1869). On the kingfishers of South Africa. Ibis, 11(3), 275-283. doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1869.tb06881.x
Links:
The Internet Bird Collection: Photos, videos, and sounds
VIREO: Visual Resources for Ornithology
Scientific name | Range |
---|---|
Ispidina picta picta | Senegambia to Ethiopia, Uganda, s Mozambique and Pemba I. |
Ispidina picta ferruginea | Rainforests of Sierra Leone to Congo Basin and w Uganda |
Ispidina picta natalensis | Angola to s Mozambique and South Africa |
Data sources:
- Field Museum of Natural History (Zoology) Bird Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14351)
- MCZ Ornithology Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/580)
- LACM Vertebrate Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14305)
- Hatikka Observation Data Gateway, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/2401)
- RBINS collections, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/13690)
- Birds, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8438)
- ORN, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1897)
- IICT Colecção Zoológica, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/12696)
- NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Birds Collections, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1835)
- Bird Collection of Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1450)
- Ditsong Museum, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/11955)
- DMNH Birds, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14178)
- Collection Aves (bird skins) SMF, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8314)
- Zoological Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (NL) - Aves, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/685)
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14100)
- Bird Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/143)
- Bird specimens, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/658)
- UMZC Zoological Specimens, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14193)
- Birds Specimens, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/632)
- Bird Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/993)
- WFVZ Bird Collections, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14187)
- Bird specimens, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/806)
- Lund Museum of Zoology (MZLU), (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1533)
- Bird specimens, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/571)
- CAS Ornithology (ORN), (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14134)
- Bird specimens, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/634)
- Denver Museum of Nature and Science Bird Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/11617)
- Peabody Ornithology DiGIR Service, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1020)
- TCWC Vertebrates, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14379)
- Bird and Mammal specimens, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/1846)
- Vertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM), (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14391)
- Cowan Tetrapod Collection - Birds, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14386)
- Ornithology Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8429)
- University of Texas at El Paso Vertebrates, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14396)
- Museum of Southwestern Biology, Albuquerque, NM., (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/985)
- hsu_wildlife_birds, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14030)
- MVZ Bird Catalog, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8122)
- Collection Aves (bird skeletons) SMF, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8312)
- Biological and palaeontological collection and observation data MNHNL, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8107)
- Aves MZS, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8091)
- SAFRING, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/11995)
- Southern African Bird Atlas Project, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/11957)
- eBird, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/43)
- Aves Tanzanian collection at the Natural History Museum of Denmark (SNM), (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/13987)
- rmca-albertine-rift-birds, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14336)
- Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/646)
- Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) Biodiversity Survey Database, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/8076)
- Macaulay Library - Audio Data, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/41)
- Bird Tissue Collection, (accessed through GBIF data portal, http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/9148)
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