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Kingfishers
» Description: About 13 inches long, the male is blue gray with a white collar, a blue gray band across the breast and a white belly. The female has an additional rust colored band around the belly.
» Habitat: Belted kingfishers are found near salt and fresh water. Their nest is a chamber at the end of a 3 to 15 foot tunnel often in a river or coastal bank.
» Foods: Belted kingfishers are loners except during the nesting season. Then they mate and work together to dig their tunnel and raise their young before they go their separate ways again.

Kingfishers are chunky birds. They have short necks and large heads, and many of them sport crests that they can raise. They have long beaks, short legs and small, weak feet. They're usually brightly coloured. Kingfishers are mainly solitary birds. Some kingfishers eat fishes, amphibians, crustaceans and water insects, which they catch by diving into the water head-first. Most eastern hemisphere kingfishers don't fish, and the forest or wood kingfishers may live far from water. The fishing kingfishers dig burrows for nesting in riverbanks or creek banks. They dig with their beaks and push the dirt out of the burrows with their feet.

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