Download kingfisher fact file - Richmond Park School

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Appearance
Habitat
Diet
Other species
Interesting
facts
•Blue feathers
•Small bird
•Small black beak
•Black eyes
•Orange breast\chest
•Pointy beak
•Sharp black claws
•Kingfishers usually live near ponds ,rivers or streams
•The kingfisher may also exploit brackish waters on
the coast and marshes.
•The kingfisher population undergoes fluctuations, but there is
no long-term trend in numbers.
•It is vulnerable to spells of severe winter weather, since when
water bodies freeze over kingfishers are unable to feed.
•Fish
•Frogs
•Worms
•Insects
•Centipedes
•Even snakes
•Molluscs
herons resemble birds
in some other families,
such as the storks,
ibises, spoonbills and
cranes, they differ from
these in flying with
their necks retracted,
not outstretched. They
are also one of the bird
groups that have
powder down. Some
members of this group
nest colonially in trees,
while others, notably
the bitterns, use reed
bed. It hunts fish for its
food. Just like a
kingfisher
Most species are tropical in
distribution, and a slight
majority are found only in
forests. They consume a wide
range of prey as well as fish,
usually caught by swooping
down from a perch. Like other
members of their order they
nest in cavities, usually tunnels
dug into the natural or artificial
banks in the ground. A few
species, principally insular
forms, are threatened with
extinction. In Britain, the word
'kingfisher' normally refers to
the Common Kingfisher.