Kingfishers
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Halcyon leucocephala
The Grey-headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) is a 42 g scrub bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Kingfishers
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Weight
- 42 g
- Habitat
- Shrubland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 33
Recorded in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Cabo Verde, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Oman, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Benin, Cameroon, Rwanda, Angola, Liberia, Chad, Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, S. Sudan, Central African Rep., Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso.
Where to see it: Barragem de Faveta (Republic of Cabo Verde); Barragem de Poilão (Republic of Cabo Verde); Holy Trinity Peace Village (Kuron) (South Sudan); Gassi retreat centre (Chad); Water hole and forest near Rajaf (South Sudan).
