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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
Aperture Value
f/8
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
-0.33 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
Compulsory Flash
Focal Length
300 mm
ISO
400
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/260 sec
Date/Time
Wed 20 Apr 2005 12:47:31 AM EDT
English Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Scientific (Halcyon malimbica)
Order CORACIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Alcedinidae
Family (English) Kingfishers
Other name(s) Martin-chasseur à poitrine bleue
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions c, w
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Benin,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo,Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Ivory Coast,Liberia,Mali,Mauritania, Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda,Sao Tome and Principe,Senegal,Sierra Leone,South Sudan,Sudan,Tanzania,Togo, Uganda,Zambia,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
torquata Senegal and Gambia to Guinea-Bissau and w Mali
forbesi Sierra Leone to w Cameroon and Bioko (n Gulf of Guinea Is.)
dryas Príncipe (c Gulf of Guinea Is.)
malimbica Cameroon to Uganda and Zambia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Shaw, 1812)
German Zügelliest
French Martin-chasseur à poitrine bleue
Chinese 蓝胸翡翠
Japanese アオムネショウビン
Russian Синегрудая альциона
Spanish Alción pechiazul
Portuguese martim-caçador-de-peito-azul
Bird Data App text
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)