Critically Endangered
Sangihe dwarf kingfisher
Ceyx sangirensis
The Sangihe dwarf kingfisher is a bird in the family Alcedinidae that is endemic to the Sangihe Islands, Indonesia.
The bird
This is a named wild bird with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
The Sangihe dwarf kingfisher is a bird in the family Alcedinidae that is endemic to the Sangihe Islands, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Habitat labels include tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Only six specimens are known, and it has not been definitively recorded since the 1870s, so it has been suggested to be probably extinct.
Sangihe dwarf kingfisher is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Sangihe dwarf kingfisher — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q31873650. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
