WoRMS source details
Alcedo semitorquata Swainson, 1823 (basis of record)
Apus Scopoli, 1777 (basis of record)
Apus apus (Linnaeus, 1758) (basis of record)
Apus berliozi Ripley, 1965 (basis of record)
Asio Brisson, 1760 (basis of record)
Asio capensis (Smith, 1834) (basis of record)
Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763) (basis of record)
Bycanistes bucinator (Temminck, 1824) accepted as Ceratogymna bucinator (Temminck, 1824) (source of synonymy)
Caprimulgus Linnaeus, 1758 (basis of record)
Caprimulgus fossii Hartlaub, 1857 (basis of record)
Caprimulgus nubicus Lichtenstein, 1823 (basis of record)
Ceratogymna Bonaparte, 1854 (basis of record)
Ceratogymna bucinator (Temminck, 1824) (basis of record)
Ceryle Boie, 1828 (basis of record)
Ceryle rudis (Linnaeus, 1758) (basis of record)
Ceuthmochares Cabanis & Heine, 1863 (basis of record)
Ceuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817) (basis of record)
Coracias Linnaeus, 1758 (basis of record)
Coracias caudatus Linnaeus, 1766 (basis of record)
Coracias garrulus Linnaeus, 1758 (basis of record)
Corythornis Kaup, 1848 (basis of record)
Corythornis cristatus (Pallas, 1764) (basis of record)
Cuculus Linnaeus, 1758 (basis of record)
Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758 (basis of record)
Cuculus rochii Hartlaub, 1863 (basis of record)
Cypsiurus Lesson, 1843 (basis of record)
Cypsiurus parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823) (basis of record)
Halcyon Swainson, 1821 (basis of record)
Halcyon chloris (Boddaert, 1783) accepted as Todiramphus chloris (Boddaert, 1783) (basis of record)
Halcyon senegaloides Smith, 1834 (basis of record)
Lybius Hermann, 1783 (basis of record)
Lybius melanopterus (Peters, 1854) (basis of record)
Megaceryle Kaup, 1848 (basis of record)
Megaceryle maxima (Pallas, 1769) (basis of record)
Merops Linnaeus, 1758 (basis of record)
Merops albicollis Vieillot, 1817 (basis of record)
Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788 (basis of record)
Merops persicus Pallas, 1773 (basis of record)
Merops pusillus Müller, 1776 (basis of record)
Merops superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766 (basis of record)
Neafrapus Mathews, 1918 (basis of record)
Neafrapus boehmi (Schalow, 1882) (basis of record)
Scotopelia Bonaparte, 1849 (basis of record)
Scotopelia peli (Bonaparte, 1850) (basis of record)
Aldabra for Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758
Comores for Merops superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766
Djibouti for Caprimulgus nubicus Lichtenstein, 1823
Djibouti for Merops persicus Pallas, 1773
Eritrea for Caprimulgus nubicus Lichtenstein, 1823
Eritrea for Ceryle rudis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Eritrea for Coracias caudatus Linnaeus, 1766
Eritrea for Cypsiurus parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
Eritrea for Melanocorypha bimaculata (Ménétries, 1832)
Eritrea for Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788
Eritrea for Merops persicus Pallas, 1773
Kenya for Apus apus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Kenya for Apus berliozi Ripley, 1965
Kenya for Asio capensis (Smith, 1834)
Kenya for Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Kenya for Caprimulgus fossii Hartlaub, 1857
Kenya for Caprimulgus nubicus Lichtenstein, 1823
Kenya for Ceratogymna bucinator (Temminck, 1824)
Kenya for Ceryle rudis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Kenya for Ceuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817)
Kenya for Coracias caudatus Linnaeus, 1766
Kenya for Coracias garrulus Linnaeus, 1758
Kenya for Corythornis cristatus (Pallas, 1764)
Kenya for Cuculus rochii Hartlaub, 1863
Kenya for Cypsiurus parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
Kenya for Halcyon senegaloides Smith, 1834
Kenya for Lybius melanopterus (Peters, 1854)
Kenya for Megaceryle maxima (Pallas, 1769)
Kenya for Merops albicollis Vieillot, 1817
Kenya for Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788
Kenya for Merops persicus Pallas, 1773
Kenya for Merops pusillus Müller, 1776
Kenya for Merops superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766
Kenya for Neafrapus boehmi (Schalow, 1882)
Kenya for Scotopelia peli (Bonaparte, 1850)
Madagascar for Cuculus rochii Hartlaub, 1863
Madagascar for Merops superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766
Mozambique for Alcedo semitorquata Swainson, 1823
Mozambique for Apus apus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mozambique for Asio capensis (Smith, 1834)
Mozambique for Caprimulgus fossii Hartlaub, 1857
Mozambique for Ceratogymna bucinator (Temminck, 1824)
Mozambique for Ceryle rudis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mozambique for Ceuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817)
Mozambique for Coracias caudatus Linnaeus, 1766
Mozambique for Coracias garrulus Linnaeus, 1758
Mozambique for Corythornis cristatus (Pallas, 1764)
Mozambique for Cuculus rochii Hartlaub, 1863
Mozambique for Cypsiurus parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
Mozambique for Halcyon senegaloides Smith, 1834
Mozambique for Lybius melanopterus (Peters, 1854)
Mozambique for Megaceryle maxima (Pallas, 1769)
Mozambique for Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788
Mozambique for Merops persicus Pallas, 1773
Mozambique for Merops pusillus Müller, 1776
Mozambique for Merops superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766
Mozambique for Neafrapus boehmi (Schalow, 1882)
Mozambique for Scotopelia peli (Bonaparte, 1850)
Red Sea for Alaemon alaudipes (Desfontaines, 1789)
Red Sea for Apus apus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Red Sea for Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Red Sea for Coracias garrulus Linnaeus, 1758
Red Sea for Halcyon chloris (Boddaert, 1783)
Red Sea for Melanocorypha bimaculata (Ménétries, 1832)
Red Sea for Merops pusillus Müller, 1776
Seychelles for Apus apus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Seychelles for Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758
Somalia for Apus berliozi Ripley, 1965
Somalia for Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Somalia for Caprimulgus nubicus Lichtenstein, 1823
Somalia for Ceryle rudis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Somalia for Ceuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817)
Somalia for Coracias caudatus Linnaeus, 1766
Somalia for Coracias garrulus Linnaeus, 1758
Somalia for Corythornis cristatus (Pallas, 1764)
Somalia for Cypsiurus parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
Somalia for Halcyon chloris (Boddaert, 1783)
Somalia for Halcyon senegaloides Smith, 1834
Somalia for Lybius melanopterus (Peters, 1854)
Somalia for Megaceryle maxima (Pallas, 1769)
Somalia for Merops albicollis Vieillot, 1817
Somalia for Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788
Somalia for Merops persicus Pallas, 1773
Somalia for Merops superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766
South Africa (country) for Alcedo semitorquata Swainson, 1823
South Africa (country) for Apus apus (Linnaeus, 1758)
South Africa (country) for Asio capensis (Smith, 1834)
South Africa (country) for Caprimulgus fossii Hartlaub, 1857
South Africa (country) for Ceryle rudis (Linnaeus, 1758)
South Africa (country) for Ceuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817)
South Africa (country) for Coracias caudatus Linnaeus, 1766
South Africa (country) for Coracias garrulus Linnaeus, 1758
South Africa (country) for Corythornis cristatus (Pallas, 1764)
South Africa (country) for Cypsiurus parvus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
South Africa (country) for Halcyon senegaloides Smith, 1834
South Africa (country) for Megaceryle maxima (Pallas, 1769)
South Africa (country) for Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788
South Africa (country) for Merops pusillus Müller, 1776
South Africa (country) for Scotopelia peli (Bonaparte, 1850)
Size: small. Plumage: blue upper and rufous under parts; tail short. Other characters: bill laterally flattened, ... [details]
Length: 180-200 mm. Colour: Adult: Bright blue and turquoise upperparts; white nape patches, chin and throat; white ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: black or brown with whitish throats. Other characters: feet heterodactyl, but appear ... [details]
Length: 16-18 cm. Plumage: uniform dark brown with whitish throat; forked tail. Immature below, white edges to ... [details]
Length: 16-17 cm. Plumage: sooty-brown with large white throat patch; sometimes with forehead whitish; some with ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: ear tufts placed close together above eyes, either short or long; wings long, narrow; tail ... [details]
Length: 32-38 cm. Plumage: brown above and below, vermiculated and barred with buff below; round face pale brown ... [details]
Length: 38 cm. Plumage: pale tawny buff with darker streaks; facial disc pale buff with darker border; dusky around ... [details]
Generally does not possess any of the elaborate feather modifications of other genera; e.g. elongate wing feathers, ... [details]
Length: 23-24 cm. Plumage: back and wing coverts dark brown with pale edges; mantle buff crown dark brown bordered ... [details]
Length: 21-23 cm. Plumage: head and back silvery-grey with rufous collar on hindneck and white line from bill to ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: black and white; feathers of crown large, broad. Other characters: male with large well ... [details]
Length: 58-65 cm. Plumage: black above with rump and ends of outer rectrices white; tips of secondaries and inner ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: soft, black and white. Tail long. Slightly sexually dimorphic. Other characters: bill ... [details]
Length: 230-250 mm. Crest flat. Colour: Adult: Crest black, superciliary stripe white; ear coverts black; cheeks, ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: no distinct pattern, soft, diffuse, glossed blue or green above; tail long and graduated; wings ... [details]
Length: 30-35 cm. Plumage: above soft greenish grey with diffuse blue or green iridescence on back and long tail; ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: blue and pink. Other characters: black bill. Display flight fast and tumbling. [details]
Length: 32-36 cm. Plumage: above, back light brown, rump purplish blue; deeply forked tail greenish cobalt blue; wing ... [details]
Size: very small. Bill somewhat fattened laterally; red or black. Plumage: blue and chestnut above, chestnut below; ... [details]
Length: 115-120 mm. Shaggy crest. Colour: Adult: upperparts deep blue; top of head turquoise with black bars; ... [details]
Size: small to medium. Plumage: most grey above, barred below; rump feathers thick, long and stiff forming a pad; ... [details]
Length: 31-38 cm. Plumage: above grey; below throat and chest pale grey, belly barred black and white; long heavy ... [details]
Length: 26-28 cm. Plumage: dark grey above; throat grey; breast to crissum barred black and white; crissum cream; ... [details]
Size: small. Plumage: plain brown; long forked tail. Other characters: feet modified pamprodactyl, deeply divided ... [details]
Length: 14-17 cm. Plumage: uniform brownish-grey; tail long and deeply forked and pointed. Immature edges to ... [details]
Size: medium. Plumage: always some blue in the plumage; tail relatively long; outer primary shorter than 5th; tibia ... [details]
Length: 17-20 cm. Plumage: blue green above; white collar continuous with all-white underparts; narrow white ... [details]
Length: 215-230 mm. Colour: Adult: head, breast, flanks and belly grey, blue grey on back, rump azure blue; wings ... [details]
Size: medium to large. Plumage: lacks bold facial stripes; tail short to moderate. Other characters: large deep ... [details]
Length: 18-19 cm. Plumage: crown to back black with red tips to feathers; wing coverts brown with white shafts; ... [details]
Size: medium to giant size. Plumage: hard in texture; markedly sexually dimorphic; tail long; inter-ramal feathers ... [details]
Length: 380-430 mm. Colour: Adult male: Crest dark slate with white speckles; back and wings slatey-black with ... [details]
Size: small, slender. Plumage: colourful; feathers of throat contrasting with breast, but not long or dependent. ... [details]
Length: 19-20 cm not including median rectrix extension which is over 12.5 cm. Plumage: above, olive green on back, ... [details]
Length: 24-26 cm not including elongate central rectrices which can add 10 cm. Plumage: almost entirely various ... [details]
Length: 23-24.5 cm exclusive of elongate central rectrices which may be 7 cm. Plumage: above and below bright ... [details]
Length: 14-18 cm. Plumage: above green; below ochre-yellow belly, chestnut to cinnamon breast, black breast-band ... [details]
Length: 23-24 cm not including elongate central rectrices which can be 7 cm. Plumage: above dull olive green, paler ... [details]
Size: small to medium. Plumage: rump and belly white: uppertail-coverts dark; tail very short with spines. Other ... [details]
Length: 7.8-10 cm. Plumage: above black; rump white; belly white, throat, breast and sides brownish-grey. Wings ... [details]
Size; medium to large. Plumage: poorly developed facial disc, no eartufts; head, nape and flank feathers long and ... [details]
Length: 61-63 cm. Plumage: above tawny rufous barred brownish black; below tawny buff streaked and spotted blackish ... [details]
Forms a superspecies with A. pallidus, A. barabtus & A. bradfieldi [details]
Taxonomically difficult genus, several controversies exist as to placement of certain species within other genera. [details]
Forms a superspecies with C. abyssinica and C. garrulus [details]
Forms a superspecies with C. abyssinica and C. caudata. Please remove. [details]
