What is a group of kingfishers called?
A group of kingfishers is called a concentration of kingfishers.
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Where do most of the birds on Earth live?
Where do most of the birds on Earth live?
Scientists think that there are about 9,500 species of birds in the world.
Birds are classified into 23 orders, such as passerines (song birds), accipters (eagles and hawks, for example), galliformes (game birds), and strigiformes (owls) etc.
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What does a Kookaburra eat?
The Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae novaeguineae) is a bird in the Kingfisher family. It is the largest Kingfisher in Australia.
The Kookaburra is carnivorous, eating mainly meat.
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White-Throated Kingfisher
The White-Throated Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis fusca)is an Asian bird, specifically from west India and Sri Lanka. Other species are widespread in Asia, from Turkey to the Philippines.
The White-Throated Kingfisher has a bright blue back, wings, and tail. Its head, shoulders, sides, and lower belly are chestnut-coloured. Its throat and chest are white. It has a very large bright red beak and bright red legs. It has short, rounded wings.
Laughing Kookaburra
The Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae novaeguineae) is the largest Australian kingfisher.
The Laughing Kookaburra is a stocky bird. It has a brown back, and brown wings with a blue patch. It has white underparts barred with dark-brown. Its tail is rufous (red-brown) with black bars. It has a white head with a broad, dark-brown eye stripe, and large brown eyes with a white eye-ring. It has a large beak that is black on top and bone-coloured on the bottom. It has pale bone-coloured legs.
Pied Kingfisher
The Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis rudis) is a wetlands bird from Africa and Asia. The photographed Pied Kingfisher is from Kenya and Uganda in east Africa.
The medium-sized Pied Kingfisher is black and white, with a white and black mask, a white supercilium (eyebrow line), and black chest bands. It has a white crest with black bands. Its beak is long and grey-black.
Grey-Headed Kingfisher
The Grey-Headed Kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) is a tropical sub-Saharan African bird.
The Grey-Headed Kingfisher has a pale grey head, black back feathers, and bright blue tail feathers and wing tips. Its underbelly is grey and chestnut. Its long beak is red.
Malachite Kingfisher
The Malachite Kingfisher (Corythornis cristatus cristatus) is a Sub-Saharan African bird. Malachite is a dark green mineral.
The Malachite Kingfisher has bright metallic blue upperparts with black bands, and a pale blue or green-blue forehead. Its head has a crest of black and blue feathers. Its face, cheeks, and underparts are rufous (red-brown), with white patches on its throat and neck. It has short, rounded wings.
It has a black beak when young, that turns red-orange in adulthood. Its legs are bright red.
Giant Kingfisher
The Giant Kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima maxima) is the largest kingfisher in Africa, found from Senegal and Gambia to Ethiopia and south to South Africa. The second subspecies of Giant Kingfisher is (Megaceryle maxima gigantea) found mainly in western Africa.
The Giant Kingfisher is about 42 centimetres (16.5 inches) long, with a large shaggy crest, a large black beak and small white spots on black upperparts. The male has a chestnut breast band and white underparts. The female has a white-spotted black chest band and a chestnut belly.