Pied kingfisher – Ceryle rudis – is a fairly large water kingfisher of Type – sallyer, the Family Alcedinidae, and the Order Coraciiformes. It is widely distributed across sub Saharan Africa and Southern Asia and more sparingly across Southern Turkey, The Levant, Syria, Iraq and into SW Iran. It is largely resident with only short seasonal movements.
Type - sallyer - Resident Habitat -
Order……….. Coraciiformes
Family……… Alcedinidae
Subfamily…..Cerylinae
Genus……… Ceryle
Species…Ceryle rudis
Pied Kingfisher – oiseaux-birds.com – Species Card
Pied Kingfisher – ebird.org – Species Sheet -ebird.org
Pied Kingfisher – wikipedia.org – Species Sheet
Pied Kingfisher – beautyofbirds.com – Species Sheet
Pied Kingfisher – xeno-canto.org – Range maps and sounds
Additional Material…
Pied Kingfisher – birdlife.org – Species factsheet
Pied Kingfisher – google.ae – Images
Pied Kingfisher – BBCWildlife – video