Brown-hooded Kingfisher

Hosts on Spekboom have recorded the Brown-hooded Kingfisher at stays in or beside Kruger National Park, Goukamma Nature Reserve, Kwandwe Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Grootvadersbosch Nature Reserve and Timbavati Private Nature Reserve and other reserves. A record means a host has seen it on the property or nearby, which makes these the places to base yourself; it is never a guarantee of a sighting on any given day.

The Brown-hooded Kingfisher is most recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (31% of records), Western Cape (26% of records), Mpumalanga (14% of records), based on 5,051 iNaturalist observations. 62 places to stay on Spekboom in South Africa have recorded the Brown-hooded Kingfisher on site or nearby.

The Brown-hooded Kingfisher is recorded throughout the year, so no month is the wrong month to look for it. For the parks where hosts record it most, these are the best seasons they give. Kruger National Park: Apr-Sep; Goukamma Nature Reserve: year-round, warm Oct-Apr; Kwandwe Private Game Reserve: year-round, best Mar-May, Sep-Nov; Sabi Sand Game Reserve: year-round, dry season May-Sep optimal. In the dry months animals concentrate at water and the grass is short.

The brown-hooded kingfisher (Halcyon albiventris) is a species of bird in the subfamily Halcyoninae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.