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| 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. She lays 5 - 7 white eggs that hatch in about 24 days. The young
leave the nest in 18 - 28 days.
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. Facts: Where there are fish there are kingfishers, beating the air with irregular flaps, diving into water head first, and emerging with fish in their long beaks. Note the ragged crest and harsh rattling call. Illustration of a female; the male lacks the chestnut on sides and breast. The tiny green Kingfisher (7 1/4 in.) of southern Texas has a dark green back and almost no crest. Did you know?:
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