🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Beach Kingfisher live?

Todiramphus saurophagus has 2,875 records in 3 countries and territories, from 1875 to 2026. Most records come from Indonesia.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCoraciiformesAlcedinidaeTodiramphus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Indonesia 2,000
Solomon Islands 447
Papua New Guinea 428

Related animals

Others in the family Alcedinidae.

Belted Kingfisher
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Common Kingfisher
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2,586,380 records
White-throated Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher
1,363,084 records
Laughing Kookaburra
Laughing Kookaburra
1,326,925 records
Sacred Kingfisher
Sacred Kingfisher
567,584 records
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
538,605 records
Ringed Kingfisher
Ringed Kingfisher
493,135 records
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
Brown-hooded Kingfisher
223,484 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.