Kingfisher

Tue, 08/08/2006 - 8:33pm — Sarah

I watched two kingfishers yesterday hover and swoop back and forth between the 4th and 5th avenue bridges. Kingfishers have a distinctive sound and are quite fun to observe.

I have to give whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry on kingfishers credit for plain straight forward talk:

Kingfishers.......beat their prey to death, either by whipping it against a tree or by dropping it on a stone.

And here I thought kingfishers were "cute".

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Wed, 10/13/2010 - 6:10pm — Sarah

Kingfisher Morning

Beautiful foggy morning down at Percival Landing, we watched two kingfishers have what looked like a territorial squabble. Lots of bobbing and posturing and then dance fighting in the air. The original territory owner reigned supreme and the other peacefully went fishing nearby.

kingfisher audio link

Wed, 10/13/2010 - 8:25pm — Thad Curtz

Kingfishers and Rough-Winged Swallows Podcast

From the Evergreen Natural History Database.

Click on the "Click here to play" link on this page: http://acdrupal.evergreen.edu/naturalhistory/kingfisherpodcast

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Best,
Thad

Wed, 10/13/2010 - 9:30pm — Sarah

so cool!

This is great, well done.

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