Common Kingfisher

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The female Common Kingfisher is identical in appearance to the male except that her lower mandible is orange-red (in stead of black) with a black tip.

First 3 photos: Eemmeer/Eemnesserpolder, Eemnes, The Netherlands, 5 September 2019
4th photo: This male caught a fish and is on his way to feed its young in the nest that is built in a burrow in a river bank in the garden of friends of minein Vreeland. The next day, the young flew out, not to return to the nest ever again. Vreeland, The Netherlands, 6 September 2014
5th photo: Lepelaarsplassen, Almere, The Netherlands, 9 March 2016

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