Have an injured Kingfisher perched ingthe garden, has a damaged wing, looks exhausted poor bugger. Not moving. Don't want to stress it out too much, wait and watch?
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Too late, taken by a Kookaburra. Such is life.
That's so sad. I mean just looking at those pictures make me sad...death is part of living, I guess.
P.S. Those photos are stunning, Max!
M.M.
Kingfisher catches Kingfisher! Wow!
Good Photos! It is likely the kookaburra caused the initial injury and the little kingfisher thought he had escaped.
Happy Birding!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/138588528@N02/
Preying on the vulnerable. Rather like a government budget or office politics.
Very sad, poor Kingfisher :( but you did capture stunning photos of the circle of life
i hope I don't sound heartless, but maybe the Kookaburra helped it in a way, because that wound would get easily infected, and it would have been in a lot of pain, poor thing
Tegan - Melbourne Vic.
Stunning captures ! I think what Wollemi says is what happened. It had been the Kookaburra's prey to start with. It goes down the food chain , the Kingfisher had to kill to feed his family and himself too. There is no compassion or guilt in nature.
That's life for all animals! They have to kill to survive. We have butchers to do the killing for us, killing much more than we actually need.
M-L
Wow, never seen that before. Really incredible images. Looks like the kingfisher would have been up against it if the kookaburra hadn't finished the job. Did you see the kookaburra coming?
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Mike
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I was outside cleaning gutters at the time, heard nothing , saw nothing.
Just happened to see the kingfisher perched in the dead tobacco plant near the house.
Realised he was in trouble , took the initial pics and checked him every 10 minutes from inside the house.
He just went missing after about 20 minutes, and when i went outside there was the kookaburra in the tree, smoking gun.
They breed around here in termite nests in trees, and compete with Kookaburras for the same nest sites.
this is one i took a couple of years ago
Stunning pics, I didn't realise Kookaburras prey on other birds.
Nature can be very cruel or at least appear to be. I must admit I'm surprised that a Kookaburra would take something as big as a Sacred Kingfisher. Quality photographs Max and an interesting story.
I found one dead last year on the lawn, no idea what had happened to it.
Samford Valley Qld.
Wow, great shot of predator and prey. Interesting to see a direct size comparison between the 2.
LM