CORACIIFORMES: Halcyonidae

Syma torotoro  

Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)
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© Geoff Walker 2015
Iron Range National Park, QLD (Jan, 2015)

The Yellow-billed Kingfisher would look around carefully and then call to the chick and fly into the entrance hole of the nest where it would quickly feed the chick and fly back out to a nearby branch, and, after being sure it was not being watched, it would fly away to find another skink.

Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)

Yellow-billed Kingfisher

Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)

Yellow-billed Kingfisher

Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)

Yellow-billed Kingfisher

Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)

Yellow-billed Kingfisher

Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)

Yellow-billed Kingfisher

Yellow-billed Kingfisher (Syma torotoro)

Yellow-billed Kingfisher