Kingfisher

The adult kingfisher grows to a length of four to eighteen inches (10 to 45 centimeters) and a weight of up to 18 ounces (500 grams). The adult kingfisher has attractive plumage, or feathers. Color combinations are azure blue above and reddish below or light and dark blue, green, brown, white, and black. The bill and legs are vermilion, or bright red, brown, or black. In most species, the male and female are similar in appearance. It has two toes on each foot that are partially webbed.

The kingfisher inhabits the interior of rainforests, woodland areas far from water, desert steppe, grassy savannas, streams, lakeshores, mangroves, seashores, gardens, mountain forests, and oceanic islands. Because the diet of many kingfishers is made up of fish and other aquatic life, it must live in areas where the water is unpolluted.

The kingfisher eats diet of small fish such as minnows and sticklebacks, crustaceans, frogs, and aquatic and land insects. It is possible for a family of six kingfishers to eat up to 100 fish a day.