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Subject: Re: [SBB] Belted Kingfisher Behavior
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At 04:38 AM 7/18/03 -0400, [[email protected]] wrote:
>Hi All
>While on a trip in the Crescent City area, I observed a male Belted
>Kingfisher sitting on a low rock 100 yards out in the ocean. No, I am sure 
>it wasn't a
>merganser - it was a Kingfisher. Can any one tell me if this is a little 
>(or a
>lot) strange for this bird ??

My two cents:  Belted Kingfisher distribution in the breeding season has to 
do mostly with available banks, in which they can construct a nest hole and 
find suitable prey in adjacent waters, which are normally streams along 
stream banks.  In the nonbreeding season they move further afield and at 
that time you will see them along the coast and at the edge of the 
Bay.  However, they really like to have sets of perches they can use, so 
without perches we tend to see few birds along salt water.  In the 
non-breeding season they are common, for example, in Monterey Harbor, which 
has an abundance of perches on the sail boats.  This summer, while birding 
Moss Landing, I found a female bringing food to a newly cut bank where the 
parking lot on the North Jetty had collapsed.  She was foraging upstream on 
Elkhorn Slough and returning to the nest hole, which was no more than 200 m 
from the open shore.  (Build them a bank and they will come.).  So a bird 
on a low rock off shore is unusual in only the sense that it would seem to 
me not to be much of a perch (for perch, heh, heh).

Bill

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