African Pygmy-kingfisher

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African Pygmy-kingfisher
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Coraciiformes Family: Alcedinidae Genus: Ceyx Species: C. pictus
Binomial name
Ceyx pictus (Boddaert, 1783)

The African Pygmy-kingfisher (Ceyx pictus) is a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

[edit] References

• BirdLife International 2004. Ceyx pictus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.