🦜 Meet Ithe White-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)🦜
🦜 The White-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)🦜
With its bright turquoise wings, chestnut-brown head & white chest, this is one of Israel’s most striking birds.
Unlike most kingfishers, in Israel, you’ll find it everywhere; in open fields, hunting in city parks, as well as near fishponds & streams.
It feasts on fish, frogs, grasshoppers, beetles, tadpoles, lizards & even the occasional small snake. During spring, it digs a long tunnel into sandy banks to nest, raising its chicks deep underground.
It is a year-round resident in Israel ie does not migrate.
It is highly territorial; both parents share the duties of incubation & feeding chicks, & defend their nesting & feeding grounds fiercely. During mating season if you hear a sharp, ringing call, look out for a flash of blue; you might just meet one of Israel’s most colourful residents!
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