This page showcases my growing collection of Kingfishers from Bali, North America, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. It is easy to see why these very colourful birds with their distinctively large bills have quickly become favourites of mine. The Belted Kingfisher is found only in North America and is a large bird. Most Kingfishers feed on fish and crustaceans, but a few do not rely on such food finding small reptiles and insects more than fill their needs. There is one very common behaviour that all of these birds show, and that is they are extremely skittish!

I was able to add two more species to this collection in February and March, 2009 in Malaysia and Singapore. These are the Black-backed and Rufous-collared Kingfishers. I am now lacking the very elusive Blue-eared and Blue-banded Kingfishers, as well as the Brown-winged Kingfisher, which is found on Langkawi Island and Andaman Sea only, to complete the series of South-east Asia, and Bali Kingfishers.

A photographic trip to South Texas in late April, 2009 in the hopes of seeing the Green Kingfisher was a very lucky and successful one. North America has three Kingfishers, Belted, Green and Ringed. You can see all three only in South Texas near the Mexican border. The Ringed is the largest of the three and should have been much easier to locate, but it was never spotted.