#1465 · 🐦 birds

Ringed Kingfisher

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Reuzenijsvogel ·Megaceryle torquata

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Matt Blue · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Amelia Ryan · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Cullen Hanks · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
5. © Gonzalo Zepeda Martínez · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
7. © Diana Caballero Alvarado · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Justin Walker · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Ronald Navarrete · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The ringed kingfisher ( Megaceryle torquata ) is a large, conspicuous and noisy kingfisher commonly found along the lower Rio Grande valley in southeasternmost Texas in the United States through Central America to Tierra del Fuego in South America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 17,548iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
17,548 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).