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Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
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Chocolate-backed Kingfisher

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Chocolate-backed Kingfisher

Halcyon badia

The chocolate-backed kingfisher (Halcyon badia) is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Halcyoninae which ooccurs in western Sub-Saharan Africa.

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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 2316.