
This fella sitting on rebar rising up from the lot next to my friend’s house was huge. Is it a Kingfisher? Closest I can come to identifying it.
For Nancy’s A Photo a Week Bird Challenge.

This fella sitting on rebar rising up from the lot next to my friend’s house was huge. Is it a Kingfisher? Closest I can come to identifying it.
For Nancy’s A Photo a Week Bird Challenge.
very colorful….
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Sure looks like the Wiki picture of a kingfisher! He’s much more orange than the one I ever saw, but that may be regional or individual.
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I know. Couldn’t find any orange or brown ones. And he was very large.
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I think they get pretty big. The one I saw was almost as big as a small heron.
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It certainly looks like one!
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You are in Mexico, yes?
If so this looks like it may be either a Boat-billed flycatcher or a Great Kiskadee.
But as the beak looks quite large I’m opting for the former.
I did a google search – I am not that clever. 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat-billed_flycatcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_kiskadee
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But you are better at searching than I am. I think a friend once saw a Great Kiskadee in my yard. Let me have a look at your URLs. I doo appreciate your help. I love knowing the names of birds and flowers.
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This bird was very large–like a night heron or kookaburra. At a distance, at first thought it was a kookaburra that had somehow made its way to Mexico.
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If you say it was large then I think we have found your ”culprit”.
The black crowned night heron.
Have a look ….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-crowned_night_heron
And more images …
https://www.google.co.za/search?q=black+crowned+night+heron&safe=off&rlz=1C2CAFA_enPT621PT621&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU0p-su47VAhVHahoKHWISClYQ_AUICigB&biw=1366&bih=662
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Maybe a night heron that hadn’t yet lost its juvenile coloring but had developed the mask, but yet I see lots of night herons here and although it had the mask, the coloring was not like any I’d seen.
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Maybe. I have enough of a job identifying South African birdlife at times so we’re pushing my ornithological dabblings to the limit here.
My only other suggestion is the Yellow Crowned Night Heron.
After that, you are on your own, I’m afraid!
But it has been fun. 🙂
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Yes..
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Great capture and treatment! Thanks for joining the challenge!
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