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Common Kingfisher

SP
Alcedo atthis
물총새
Included in KBR checklist
Common Kingfisher
Artemy Voikhansky · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis), known in Korean as 물총새 has eligible documented records in 17 of South Korea's 17 first-level administrative regions in the current KoreAves evidence projection. The current supporting record sources are GBIF and EcoBank. These records document evidence coverage; regions without eligible records are not interpreted as biological absence, and the counts are not population or abundance estimates.

Regions with records 17 / 17
Record sources 2 / 2

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Family Alcedinidae

Family per AviList v2025b (CC BY 4.0) · Avibase record ↗ · Evidence snapshot 2026-10-04