175，Amazon Kingfishers

This small bird may look not look very special but it has somevery interesting habits. Amazon kingfishers can be found in Southern Mexico, and SouthAmerica, especially around places in the Amazon rainforest. They usually spendtheir time along the river in branches trying to find food. These birds findfood by diving into the water. They hunt for mostly fish but also insects,amphibians, and some crustaceans. Amazing kingfishers don’t have any constant predators which is onereason their population is stable. Their average lifespan is 10 to 15 years.This birds nest is a burrow typically up to 1.6 meters into the mud. The femalewill lay 3-4 eggs and usually under a year they are on their own. The amazon kingfisher is quite an eye catching bird. It has a longblack beak the same length as it’s head, a green head and crest, white neck andunderbelly, with green wings and a red throat. They are about 30 cm long andweigh around one fifth of a pound. For wild suzhou i’m palm tree and thank you for listening.