BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Kingfisher

KINGFISHER
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• Population
changes

• Productivity
trends

• Additional
information

Conservation listings

Europe: SPEC category 3, declining
UK: amber (European status)

Long-term trend

UK: fluctuating, with no long-term trend

UK population size

4,800–8,000 pairs in 2000 (1988–91 Atlas estimate updated using WBS trend: BiE04, APEP06)

Status summary

The Kingfisher declined along linear waterways (its principal habitat) until the mid 1980s, since when it seems to have made a complete recovery. The decline was associated with a contraction of range in England (Gibbons et al. 1993). Kingfishers suffer severe mortality during harsh winters but, with up to three broods in a season, and up to six chicks in a brood, their potential for rapid recovery is unusually high.

Population changes

Productivity trends

Productivity information is not currently available for this species

Additional information


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This report should be cited as: Baillie, S.R., Marchant, J.H., Crick, H.Q.P., Noble, D.G., Balmer, D.E., Coombes, R.H., Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Joys, A.C., Leech, D.I., Raven, M.J., Robinson, R.A. and Thewlis, R.M. (2006) Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside: their conservation status 2005. BTO Research Report No. 435. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends) Pages maintained by Susan Waghorn and Iain Downie: Last updated 28 April, 2006