page_title: List of birds of New York (state)
section_title: Kingfishers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of New York (state) / Kingfishers
caption_attribution_description: Male Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon, Morro Bay, California. Canon 40D with 300mm f/2.8L IS, 580EX flash with Better Beamer in ETTL mode FEC 0.
context_page_description: This list of birds of New York includes the 495 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of February 2020. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species represent 23 orders and 67 families of birds.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in New York as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. These tags are used to annotate some species:
  Breeding - a species that currently breeds or has bred in New York
  Extinct - a species that used to live in what is now New York but is now extinct
  Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in New York, but populations exist elsewhere
context_section_description: Order: Coraciiformes   Family: Alcedinidae
  Kingfishers are medium-sized birds with large heads, long, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. One species has been recorded in New York.
  Belted kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon (B)
caption: Belted kingfisher
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