Kingfishers
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 186 kingfishers and related species. These date from 1871 to 1994.
This collection mostly includes mounted birds, skins and a small number of eggs. There are 118 kingfishers (25 species), 27 hornbills (15 species), 27 rollers (seven species), four wood hoopoes, six hoopoes and four motmots. Specimens with data come from Scotland, England, Switzerland, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. Highlights include an interesting Scottish specimen of a hoopoe from Cardross, Dunbartonshire in 1878, and a European roller from Aberdeen.
About kingfishers
Kingfishers (Alcedinidae, Cerylidae and Halcyonidae) belong to the Coraciiformes. This group of colourful birds also includes bee-eaters (Meropidae), rollers (Coraciidae), hornbills (Bucerotidae), motmots (Momotidae), wood hoopoes (Phoeniculidae), hoopoe (Upupidae), ground rollers (Brachypteraciidae) and todies (Todidae). - Broader term
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