This is second
installment of a six-part series of this feature article.
Adult: Breeding season :Mmatchmaking and
digging a hole for nesting
Needless to say, the most
important thing for animals to live is the acquisition of food.
In the case of kingfishers,
according to ADW, they eat small fish, crustaceans and aquatic insects
equivalent to 60% of their weight per day. It has a very strong territorial
because it must secure a sufficient feeding ground for that. The range is said
to be 1 km to 3 km.
Here, in February for breeding,
males chase a female every day to determine the breeding partner. And the male
starts digging the hole for nesting and the female also cooperates and does.
From this time onwards, there is frequent courtship feeding that shows
affection to the female until mating.
Moreover, the height of the nest
hole from the water surface was 2m,and the nest burrow length I measured in
the local was about 80 cm. The end of the burrow was wide sideways.
Average weight of adult bird of kingfisher：34ｇ（quate from ADW）
Male chases female
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