Profile
In flight
Kingfishers
Stork-billed Kingfisher
Pelargopsis capensis
- epic
- 65 km/h
- Least Concern
A giant of the kingfisher tribe, plunging from low branches with a bill the size of a dagger. Its cackling laugh is unmistakable along the mangrove channels.
- Population
- widespread but thinly distributed across South and Southeast Asia
- Habitat
- mangroves, slow forest streams, lakeshores, tidal creeks
- Diet
- fish, crabs, frogs, lizards, small rodents
- Size
- 0.36 m
- Wingspan
- 0.5 m
