Brown-breasted kingfisher
The brown-breasted kingfisher (Halcyon gularis) is a tree kingfisher endemic to the Philippines, where it is widely distributed. This kingfisher is a resident over much of its range.[1]
| Brown-breasted kingfisher | |
|---|---|
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Clade: | Dinosauria | 
| Class: | Aves | 
| Order: | Coraciiformes | 
| Family: | Alcedinidae | 
| Subfamily: | Halcyoninae | 
| Genus: | Halcyon | 
| Species: | H. gularis  | 
| Binomial name | |
| Halcyon gularis (Kuhl, 1820)  | |
| Synonyms | |
| 
 Halcyon smyrnensis gularis  | |
It was previously considered a subspecies of the white-throated kingfisher (H. smyrnensis), but was split as a distinct species by the IUCN Red List and BirdLife International in 2014, and the International Ornithological Congress followed suit in 2022.[2][3]
References
    
- BirdLife International (2016). "Halcyon gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22725856A94903577. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22725856A94903577.en. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
 - "IOC World Bird List 12.1". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.12.1. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
 - Collar, Nigel J. (2011). "Species limits in some Philippine birds including the Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus" (PDF). Forktail. 27: 29–38.
 
- Collar 2011b; Allen 2020; HBW/Birdlife
 - Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2022. IOC World Bird List (v12.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.12.1.
 
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