Azure kingfisher in Hawker

[Dimitris Bertzeletos <>]

Hello,

I've seen Sacred's fish plenty of times so I wouldn't take it as a defining characteristic.

Cheers,

D.

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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 20:14:10 +1100
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Azure kingfisher in Hawker

Hi All

I've received a report from a friend of an Azure Kingfisher in Hawker.  He says: "We have an azure kingfisher smashing it's face into our windows. I kid you not!" and "It hit the window 4 times, then sat under the patio for ages, then flew around and away, some magpies started chasing it."  Doubting his claim very much, believing it to be a sacred, Discussion with Julian Teh has led me to believe it to be an Azure kingfisher.  The evidence is this: "It was azure blue and very fast...  We had them occasionally in Brisbane and, yes I looked exactly like the picture, but it was a bit scraggly. It ate one of our goldfish too."  This meant nothing to me, but Julian claims that Sacreds are not fishing species, yet Azures are fishing species.

Matt.