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How Rare Are Kingfishers UK?

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The RSPB estimates there are between 4,800 and 8,000 breeding pairs thinly, but widely, spread across the UK Their scarcity mean kingfishers are protected under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Do brown hooded kingfishers migrate? It sometimes occurs near water, and can adapt to suburban habitats. Most populations do not migrate … Read more

Is A Kingfisher And Kookaburra The Same?

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Most of the world’s kingfishers and kookaburras live in Asia, Africa and Australia. Kookaburras are the most terrestrial of all the kingfishers ; consequently, their diet includes a wide variety of insects, worms, lizards and small mammals and birds but very rarely fish. Are kookaburras the largest kingfishers ? The laughing kookaburra is the largest … Read more