Family: Alcedinidae (Kingfishers)

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species has an extremely large range and the population size is very large, hence does not approach threatened thresholds for the range or population size criteria. Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion. For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Population size: 716000-1760000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 94,100,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Afrotropical
Realm - Indomalayan
Realm - Oceanian
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Freshwater
IUCN System - Terrestrial
IUCN System - Marine
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