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YC Wee
on 4th May 2008

This documentation of a Black-capped Kingfisher (Halcyon pileata) catching a fiddler crab was made in the Mai Po marshes of Hongkong (above). Jianzhong Liu a.k.a Jz first posted the images […]

YC Wee
on 10th April 2008

This is a continuation from the previous post… Raising Kings I. The chicks continued to be fed dependant on their parents in the first two weeks. When Zena gave the […]

YC Wee
on 9th April 2008

Raising Kings is a sequential to Breeding Kings. Join me in this 2nd part to witness Hector and Zena – the parental pair of White-throated Kingfishers (Halcyon smyrnensis), nurture their […]

YC Wee
on 23rd February 2008

When “Tale of the Stock-billed Kingfisher” was written in 2006, describing the mythological story of how kingfishers’ family of Halcyon derived their names from; how a Stork-billed Kingfisher (Halcyon capensis) […]

YC Wee
on 21st December 2007

The nesting of at least two pairs of Oriental Dwarf Kingfishers (Ceyx erithacus) in June 2007 in Panti forest, Johor, Malaysia allowed many photographers to document the food habits of […]

YC Wee
on 8th December 2007

We associate kingfishers with fish, although these birds feed on a wide range of foods. In fishing, the bird sits on a perch overlooking an open expanse of water and […]

YC Wee
on 27th September 2007

Most birds will try their best to distract potential predators from their nests, usually by feigning injury as seen with the Yellow-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier) and Large-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus). […]

YC Wee
on 25th July 2007

On 6th April 2007 Eddy Lee chanced upon a nest of the Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris): “The nest was located about 3 m above the ground in a dead tree […]

YC Wee
on 23rd June 2007

In June 2007, Singapore photographers were travelling regularly to Johor, Malaysia to photograph a pair of rare resident kingfishers nesting in the Panti forest. These birds are identified as Rufous-backed […]

YC Wee
on 25th March 2007

Although they are called kingfishers, not all kingfishers eat fish. Of the 90 or so species, well over half feed at least sometimes on other prey. There are several species […]

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