green kingfisher

Another from the Tarcoles River.

From the archives--Green Kingfisher from last year. Photographed bird from a kayak on a fishing trip on the Guadalupe River

This lovely male Green Kingfisher was found above the Sierpe River along the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica - - - -

This was a lovely excursion by boat along the river in the warm morning light. Our boat driver was very good at letting the boat drift from time to time, which really helped with making no noise and no vibrations.

Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana subsp. septentrionalis) Female, species sexually dimorphic. Edinburg Scenic Wetlands, Edinburg, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA. South Texas Plains Vegetational Area. Mesquite thicket with Tamulipan scrub with native gardens and several old gravel pits full of...

Happy birding for 2016! I hope you have a healthy, prosperous, and fun 2016. Thank you for viewing and commenting on my posts!!! I know I enjoyed viewing all of the fabulous posts during 2015. Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana subsp. mathewsii) Male, species sexually dimorphic...

Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana subsp. mathewsii) Female, species sexually dimorphic. Tributary of Piquiri River, south of Puerto Jofre, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Riverine with cerrado and scattered wetlands adjacent to the tributary at ca. 122 m (400) elevation.

A terrible photo of my first and so far only Green Kingfisher (lifer #313), perched on top of the white pole in this pond at Santa Ana NWR. Not five minutes later, I found a pair of Ringed Kingfishers (lifer #314) in the larger pond adjacent to this one (no photo), so seeing the two specialty...

It was a hot day, and there was a Roadside Hawk lurking at the far end of the pond, and kingfishers do tend to like to sit on branches overhanging the water, so there are any number of reasons why this pair was sitting deep in the shade of the trees around the pond. We, meanwhile, just stood as...

You talkin' to me? I think the poses were some sort of conversation between the two. I know kingfisher pairs are known to "clatter" rather sociably with one another, especially early in the morning. With a fish in her bill, the female wasn't able to participate in that (I guess giving...

and now she too is doing the tail flash pose. Just posting these last 3 quickly now. Got back from a meeting in Oslo minutes ago. Have some internet bank tasks I need to get done, then I'll see if I can catch up on browsing before I collapse for the night.

Here come three shots of the male GF going through his series of poses - bow (I don't think I have a shot of the male doing that one, but sort of showed it in the female series yesterday in shot 1:9), stretch, shrug, and flash. Here's the stretch, which I also showed the female doing.

Here's the "shrug" pose, the strangest-looking of the series.

And here's the flasher pose, possibly the cutest pose of the series. Remember, I'm hoping someone here can explain what these postures are about ...

This is going to be a 9-image storyboard about a pair of Green Kingfishers. This is the female. She was holding a very stiff, very dead fish (rigor mortis had definitely set in). He was empty-beaked. I'll be showing a number of poses they were taking, over and over - bow, shrug, stretch, repeat...

Note the bow she seems to be taking. The series of 9 will show a whole set of postures she and her mate were making, that I'm hoping someone can explain (see shot 1:9 if you haven't already, and wait for shots 4-9:9 over the next two days).

She's moved two trees over, but still holding that same fish, which still seems as stiff as a stone.

He gave us some great poses, this guy.

I really would have been gutted if we hadn't found the card with these shots. Most of the images on the card had already been downloaded to my laptop the night before, but not deleted from the card because I hadn't yet backed them up to an external hard drive. But the views this kingfisher gave...

This one's my favorite, and the last one I'll post of day 2's kingfisher series. I know you can't see much of that brilliant red "vest" of his, but the gleam in his eye and on his bill is classic comic-strip "evil" ;) I imagine this as the way fish think of him.

Got two lovely series of these. This one male on day 2 and a pair showing some interesting behavior on day 3. Hope you'll enjoy both series |=)|

This small kingfisher breeds by streams in forests or mangroves. The nest is in a horizontal tunnel up to a metre long made in a river bank.

Green Kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana septentrionalis) Five subspecies are recognized with only subspecies septentrionalis being mapped for Costa Rica. Species sexually dimorphic. Photographed along Ro Nosara in Nosara Biological Reserve, Nosara, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. Riparian...