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Author: wilsondring Time: 10/03/2013 19:51 Subject: Courting Common Kingfishers

A lovely pair of common kingfishers courted and mate this afternoon ..

1:43 - male caught a fish ..
1:48 - female arrived on the scene ..
1:49 - female accepted the gift from the male ..
1:51 - they sat around and singing before flying off into the distance ..
2:51 - female re-appeared some 100m from the "courting" location"
2:53 - the male arrives and calls the female over (20m away)
2:54 - as soon as the female arrived, the male jumped on top of the female ..
2:55 - they disappeared after a few seconds ..

we did manage to capture them mating on film but they were quite far away and in a very dark spot .. unfortunately ..

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Author: wilsondring Time: 17/03/2013 18:08

I was back to Chinese University this afternoon and I although I did not see for myself, I heard that the same pair were still courting and again were mating this morning ..

Author: wilsondring Time: 23/03/2013 21:56

the same pair are still at it .. although i did notice that there were now two female and one male this afternoon.

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Author: QWERTYALEX Time: 9/08/2013 22:56

Lovely photos!

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