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There are some comments on Bill-snapping along this line, so I'll add one that is also
amusing. Several (about 6) years ago I had a Sacred
Kingfisher in my backyard (Kambah ACT) for a day. At one stage it was bathing in
the bird bath (a water dish on the ground on the middle of the lawn). A male
Common Blackbird was fussing around it, hopping around flicking wings and giving
clanking alarm call at point blank range. Some time later the Blackbird was in
the bird bath in full ablution mode and the Sacred
Kingfisher watched it for a while then when the Blackbird was facing away,
the Kingfisher flew down from the clothes line, swooped down within a few
cm of the Blackbird's head and snapped its beak as it passed by. I heard it from
several metres away. The Blackbird fled the scene in panic.
The Kingfisher just continued on to the nearby tree, watching the
site. So yes this sounds anthropomorphic but true
nonetheless.
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