Common Kingfisher

Alcedo atthis

Common Kingfisher photographed by Hassan
Melbourne
Common Kingfisher photographed by Sean
Tel Aviv-Yafo · October 10, 2025

When to look

Reported most in October, across 1.8M open records.

Records by month. January, 197,172 records. February, 129,388 records. March, 113,867 records. April, 106,735 records. May, 100,110 records. June, 79,662 records. July, 100,703 records. August, 165,760 records. September, 204,150 records. October, 206,508 records. November, 181,061 records. December, 185,761 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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