Title: Giant kingfisher
Content: Giant kingfisher The giant kingfisher ("Megaceryle maxima") is the largest kingfisher in Africa, where it is a resident breeding bird over most of the continent south of the Sahara Desert other than the arid southwest. The first formal description of the giant kingfisher was by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas in 1769 under the binomial name "Alcedo maxima". The current genus "Megaceryle" was erected by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848. There are two subspecies: The nominate subspecies "M. m. maxima" occurs in wooded savanna while "M. m. gigantea" prefers tropical rainforest. The giant kingfisher is long,

Title: Tree kingfisher
Content: kingfisher family Alcedinidae. The other two are Alcedininae and Cerylinae. The subfamily contains around 70 species divided into 12 genera. A molecular study published in 2017 found that the genera "Dacelo" and "Actenoides" as currently defined are paraphyletic. The shovel-billed kookaburra in the monotypic genus "Clytoceyx" sits within "Dacelo" and the glittering kingfisher in the monotypic genus "Caridonax" lies within "Actenoides". Kingfishers are short-tailed, large-headed, compact birds with long, pointed bills. Like other Coraciiformes, they are brightly coloured. The tree kingfishers are medium to large species, mostly typical kingfishers in appearance, although shovel-billed kookaburra has a huge conical bill, and

Title: Marquesan kingfisher
Content: Marquesan kingfisher The Marquesan kingfisher ("Todiramphus godeffroyi") is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is endemic to French Polynesia. It is threatened by habitat loss and predation by introduced species, and is currently classified as Critically endangered, with fewer than 500 individuals left in the wild. This unique bird is approximately 22 cm tall with a buff triangle on its upper back. It has completely white plumage on its crown, mantle, forehead, and center upper back along with featuring a blue eye-stripe pattern ending as broken line behind head. It also has a unique bright blue-green lower

Title: Kingfisher
Content: Kingfisher Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species found in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The family contains 114 species and is divided into three subfamilies and 19 genera. All kingfishers have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with only small differences between the sexes. Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests. They consume a wide range of prey usually caught

Title: Blyth's kingfisher
Content: Blyth's kingfisher Blyth's kingfisher ("Alcedo hercules") is the largest kingfisher in the genus "Alcedo". Named for Edward Blyth, the species has also been known as "Alcedo grandis" and as the great blue kingfisher. Between long, the kingfisher has deep rufous underparts with a blackish blue breast patch, and brilliant cobalt blue or azure upperparts, tinged with purple. The wings are a dark blackish green, with blue speckles and tips to some of the feathers. The bill of the male is entirely black, while the female has a dark red lower mandible. The species is distinguished from the similar blue-eared kingfisher

Question: Which antipodean bird is the largest member of the kingfisher family?
Answer: Kookaburra