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Water Kingfishers
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Water Kingfishers

Cerylinae

The water kingfishers or Cerylinae are one of the three subfamilies of kingfishers, and are also known as the cerylid kingfishers. All six American species are in this subfamily.

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3 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 9 known species

Large Crested Kingfishers

genusMegaceryle

American Green Kingfishers

genusChloroceryle

Ceryle

genusCeryle

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1542374.