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Common Kingfisher

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Photo by RianBernal
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used a spotting scope

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Comments (2)
RianBernal
oh okay. thank you for that. i will edit this spotting! XD
Malcolm Wilton-Jones
Hi Rian, this does not look like a White-collared Kingfisher as it has a brown ear patch and shows brown on the flanks. I think it is a Common Kingfisher. The White-collared has a deeper white collar extending all round the neck, no brown at all, a thicker, longer bill and is very much larger.

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