Kingfisher: Kingfisher and the Flatfish

Kingfisher: Kingfisher and the Flatfish

Kingfisher: Kingfisher and the Flatfish

Kingfisher: Kingfisher and the Flatfish

Kingfisher: kingfisher - nesting

Kingfisher: kingfisher - nesting

Kingfisher and the Flatfish

kingfisher - nesting

Kingfisher Nest Guesthouse in Bela Bela, Limpopo

Kingfisher Nest Guesthouse in Bela Bela, Limpopo

Kingfisher: Confused About the Noise About Bird Flu?

Kingfisher: Confused About the Noise About Bird Flu?: "Confused About the Noise About Bird Flu? If you base your beliefs on what you hear from the mainstream media, almost half of everything you..."

Confused About the Noise About Bird Flu?

If you base your beliefs on what you hear from the mainstream media, almost half of everything you think you know is not true.  You’ve been lied to about almost everything that you’ve been told by the popular media, including bird flu.

You’ve been lied to in order to convince you to accept a new social agenda that is so radically different from the social reality of a generation ago that anyone over the age of thirty suffers from culture shock every time they go out in public.

You’ve been lied to about what you think, about what ‘everybody else thinks’ and about what the ‘smart’ people think for so long that you might not know what to think any more.

Everybody knows it – you know it!  The lies are so pervasive that you can’t see them anymore, even when they stand right in front of you in all their glory.  Many people, when confronted with the truth, would rather remain in denial than admit what they see before them.

Patrick Henry stated on March 23, 1775 in his Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech:

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of the siren, till she transforms us into beasts. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst and provide for it."

This then, is the whole truth about Bird flu.

This website aims to expose the truth about how all historical events of importance have happened by design.  Once you've read this report, you are encouraged to read An Introductionto Conspiratorial History.

Weapons of Mass Distraction

As you read this article, please keep the following quote in the back of your mind:

"The threat of environmental crisis will be the 'international disaster key' that will unlock the New World Order." [Mikhail Gorbachev, quoted in "A Special Report: The Wildlands Project Unleashes Its War On Mankind", by Marilyn Brannan, Associate Editor, Monetary & Economic Review, 1996, p. 5.]

Facts about Bird Flu Outbreak in Asia

The recent outbreak in Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, have shaken Asia's poultry industry. Thailand, which produces about one billion chickens a year and exports mainly to Japan and Europe, said it was free of bird flu but was battling an outbreak of poultry cholera.

Here are the main facts about the disease.

What is Bird Flu?

The outbreaks in Thailand, South Korea, Japan and Vietnam have been caused by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza viruses. Avian influenza can range from a mild disease that has only minor effects to a highly infectious fatal version. It spreads in the air and in manure.

It can also be transmitted by contaminated feed, water, equipment and clothing. Clinically normal waterfowl and sea birds may introduce the virus into flocks. Broken contaminated eggs may infect chicks in incubators.

Bird flu is no worse than a bad cold for an animal, which also sees the animal fully recover, if tended to with appropriate housing, bedding, basic, inexpensive medical care and proper nutrition.  Slaughtering these animals is as absurd as murdering our seven-year-olds for having a runny nose, because we have decided we're not going to live with the common cold.

Is Bird Flu Harmful To Humans?

Human fatalities from avian influenza are very rare and were unknown before 1997, when six people in Hong Kong died after being infected with the H5N1 strain.

In early 2002, a 33-year-old Hong Kong man contracted the H5N1 virus and died of pneumonia.

In April 2003, a veterinarian who had been working on a Dutch farm infected with bird flu became ill with an H7 strain of the disease and died of pneumonia. The vet did not take medication against avian and human flu. Rules have been tightened to ensure anyone who comes in contact with infected farms does so.

Only two deaths in Thailand have been confirmed to have resulted from bird flu and as of January 28, 2004, only 10 deaths have been attributed to bird flu.

Could Bird Flu Become a Human Epidemic?

Although avian flu is very infectious in birds, it does not spread easily among humans.

There is a danger, however, that an avian virus mixes with a human influenza and forms a new disease. The new virus could share genetic material from both viruses, being highly infectious like human flu and dangerously fatal like the avian variety. Humans would have no natural defence against it.

However, to put things in perspective - the current 'bird flu crisis' is hardly a crisis.

The pandemic of 1918-19, known as the Spanish flu, sickened an estimated 20 percent to 40 percent of the worldwide population, with a death toll believed to exceed 20 million. In the United States alone, some 500,000 people died.

The next pandemic, the Asian flu of 1957-58, killed about 70,000 in the United States, while the 1968-69 Hong Kong flu led to about 34,000 deaths in the United States.

Bird Flu Compared to Mad Cow Disease

In 2001 the Blair Government forced the slaughter of about 2 million cattle simply because less than 1,500 were diagnosed with Foot and Mouth Disease, a relatively benign disease from which two-thirds of afflicted animals survive, and which poses no threat to humans.  In the process, Britain forced many farmers out of business and ruined the land upon which the farmers and ranchers were dependent, thus forcing the land to lie fallow while it gradually recovered from the deliberate poisoning brought on by the chemicals added to the carcasses of the animals so as to start the fire of the open-field funeral pyres.

Many independent investigations have been conducted and it is now widely believed that the crisis was contrived by the British Government.

One such researcher, Steven Ransom, published a book called 'Plague, Pestilence and the Pursuit of Power'.  In it he says the following:

"Whilst intentional entrenched error and scientific bungling are themselves a serious matter, my team believes these factors are overshadowed by evidence of a far more serious nature - the existence of a covert and dangerously harmful European federalist agenda:

"Our farming heritage is seen as a threat to those wishing to dismantle British national sovereignty in favour of interdependent European union. Our evidence suggests that behind closed doors, decisions have been made to rid an independent Britain and other independent nations of their livestock industry by any means necessary. Swine fever, BSE, more BSE and now foot and mouth? These so-called 'outbreaks' have provided the perfect reason to
slaughter thousands upon thousands of completely healthy cattle, sheep and pigs over the years. And it appears the goal to break the back of UK farming is being achieved. The facts in our report reveal the British and other governments are colluding in the most abhorrent actions. Most definitely, there are issues of criminality and treason to answer in the light of the crippling damage that has been wilfully inflicted upon the British people and their nation's economic infrastructure."

Steven Ransom, Plague, Pestilence and the Pursuit of Power.

Kingfisher: Kingfisher: Kingfisher

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Kingfisher: Amazing kingfisher pics!

Kingfisher: Amazing kingfisher pics!

Amazing kingfisher pics!

List of species in taxonomic order

• Genus Lacedo

• Banded Kingfisher, Lacedo pulchella

• Genus Dacelo, kookaburras

• Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae
• Blue-winged Kookaburra, Dacelo leachii
• Spangled Kookaburra, Dacelo tyro
• Rufous-bellied Kookaburra, Dacelo gaudichaud

• Genus Clytoceyx

• Shovel-billed Kookaburra, Clytoceyx rex

• Genus Cittura

• Lilac Kingfisher, Cittura cyanotis

• Genus Pelargopsis

• Brown-winged Kingfisher, Pelargopsis amauropterus
• Stork-billed Kingfisher, Pelargopsis capensis
• Great-billed Kingfisher, Pelargopsis melanorhyncha

• Genus Halcyon

• Ruddy Kingfisher, Halcyon coromanda
• Chocolate-backed Kingfisher, Halcyon badia
• White-throated Kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis
• Grey-headed Kingfisher, Halcyon leucocephala
• Black-capped Kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
• Javan Kingfisher, Halcyon cyanoventris
• Woodland Kingfisher, Halcyon senegalensis
• Mangrove Kingfisher, Halcyon senegaloides
• Blue-breasted Kingfisher, Halcyon malimbica
• Brown-hooded Kingfisher, Halcyon albiventris
• Striped Kingfisher, Halcyon chelicuti

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  Genus Todirhamphus

• Blue-black Kingfisher, Todirhamphus nigrocyaneus
• Winchell's Kingfisher, Todirhamphus winchelli
• Blue-and-white Kingfisher,Todirhamphus diops
• Lazuli Kingfisher, Todirhamphus lazuli
• Forest Kingfisher, Todirhamphus macleayii
• White-mantled Kingfisher,Todirhamphus albonotatus
• Ultramarine Kingfisher,Todirhamphus leucopygius
• Vanuatu Kingfisher, Todirhamphus farquhari
• Red-backed Kingfisher,Todirhamphus pyrrhopygia
• Flat-billed Kingfisher, Todirhamphus recurvirostris
• Micronesian Kingfisher,Todirhamphus cinnamominus
• Collared Kingfisher, Todirhamphus chloris
• Sombre Kingfisher, Todirhamphus funebris
• Talaud Kingfisher, Todirhamphus enigma
• Beach Kingfisher, Todirhamphus saurophaga
• Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher,Todirhamphus australasia
• Sacred Kingfisher, Todirhamphus sanctus
• Society Kingfisher, Todirhamphus veneratus
• Mewing Kingfisher, Todirhamphus ruficollaris
• Chattering Kingfisher, Todirhamphus tuta
• Marquesan Kingfisher, Todirhamphus godeffroyi
• Tuamotu Kingfisher, Todirhamphus gambieri

• Genus Caridonax

• Glittering Kingfisher, Caridonax fulgidus

• Genus Melidora

• Hook-billed Kingfisher, Melidora macrorrhina

• Genus Actenoides

• Moustached Kingfisher, Actenoides bougainvillei
• Rufous-collared Kingfisher,Actenoides concretus
• Spotted Wood Kingfisher, Actenoides lindsayi
• Hombron's Kingfisher, Actenoides hombroni
• Green-backed Kingfisher, Actenoides monachus
• Scaly-breasted Kingfisher,Actenoides princeps

• Genus Syma

• Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Syma torotoro
• Mountain Kingfisher, Syma megarhyncha

Kingfisher: Tree Kingfishers or Wood Kingfishers

Kingfisher: Tree Kingfishers or Wood Kingfishers: "The tree kingfishers or wood kingfishers , family Halcyonidae , are the most numerous of the three families of birds in the kingfisher..."

Tree Kingfishers or Wood Kingfishers

The tree kingfishers or wood kingfishers, family Halcyonidae, are the most numerous of the three families of birds in the kingfisher  group, with between 56 and 61 species in around 12 genera, including several species of kookaburras.
The family appears to have arisen in Indochina and the Maritime Southeast Asia and then spread to many areas around the world. Tree kingfishers are widespread through Asia and Australasia, but also appear in Africa and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, utilising a range of habitats from tropical rainforest to open woodlands.
The tree kingfishers are short-tailed large-headed compact birds with long pointed bills. Like other Coraciiformes, they are brightly coloured.
Most are monogamous and territorial, nesting in holes in trees or termite nests. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed the chicks.
Although some tree kingfishers frequent wetlands, none are specialist fish-eaters. Most species a dive onto prey from a perch, mainly taking slow moving invertebrates or small vertebrates..

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Mating kingfishers caught on camera

Laughing Kookaburra

According to an Aboriginal legend, the kookaburra's famous chorus of laughter every morning is a signal for the sky people to light the great fire that illuminates and warms the earth by day. The legend captures the imagination, but the true function of the familiar cacophony is to advertise the territory of this bold bird. The Laughing Kookaburra is the largest of the kingfisher family, but unlike most of its relatives, it is sedentary and occupies the same territories the year round. Before spring breeding season, when family groups adjust their boundaries, an observer can actually locate the territories by listening to the noisy choruses at dusk as each group calls in turn and awaits the replies of neighbouring groups.

Habitat

Laughing Kookaburras live in woodlands and open forests. They do not need free water to exist and occur in almost any part of eastern Australia with trees big enough to contain their nests and open patches sufficient to provide hunting grounds. You can see Laughing Kookaburra north of Cape York Peninsula, inland to western fringes of Great Diving Ranges and southwest to Eyre Peninsula.

Diet

Kookaburras are not particularly selective feeders - their diet of snakes, lizards, rodents and the odd small bird is probably best known, but they live mainly on various insects and other invertebrates. Their method of hunting, perch and pounce, is typical of kingfishers. The bulky birds settle motionless on a vantage point staring fixedly at the ground below. Sighting prey, they flutter down on to it, seize it in the bill, and fly back to a perch to eat it.

Breeding

Laughing Kookaburras birth rate is low to keep pace with their longevity, and the population turnover is slow. Kookaburras form permanent pairs and take so long to rear their young to independence that more than one clutch a season is unlikely. Instead of being forced out of the territories on reaching maturity, most young stay to help parents defend the boundaries and rear/protect further offspring. Their nesting season starts in September and finishes in January. They nest a large cavity in almost any object big enough to contain an adult, usually a hole in a tree or termite mound. Incubation begins with the first egg laid of up to four. Incubation and feeding of young is carried out by all members of the group.

Bird Call

A very family orientated species the Laughing Kookaburra has a very long history in Australia with several stories and Aboriginal legends stemming from the daily early morning chorus of this species. Many tribes believed that the call of the Kookaburra on dawn was a signal to the sky gods to light the great fire in the sky that illuminates and warms the earth by day. Actually used more as a territorial marker, the call of the Kookaburra is one of those unmistakable sounds of the Australian bush that will definitely give your ears a workout morning and afternoon.

Quick Facts

Number in Britain	Conservation Status UK	Status in UK	Length	Wingspan	Weight	Habitat	First Record
11,400	Amber	Migrant/Resident Breeder	16 cm	25cm	40g	Rivers, marshes, lakes, seacoasts	8th Century

 

Egg Size	Egg Weight	Clutch Size	Incubation	Fledging	Number of broods	First clutches laid	Age at First Breeding	Maximum Recorded Age
22x19  mm	4.3g	5-7 eggs	21-21  days	23-26 days	1 or 2	Late April	1 year	4y6m

 The Kingfishers dig burrows in the river banks, digging with their beaks and push the dirt out of the burrows with their feet.They have long beaks, short legs and small  feeble feet.

The average lifespan is 15 years.

The nest fills with fish bones, droppings and pellets, making the Kingfisher one of the most unhygienic birds.

 Numerous young Kingfishers die by drowning when they first fledge. Because of the high death rate, pairs usually have two or three broods a year, with as many as 10 in a brood.

A Kingfisher needs to eat at least 16 minnows a day to survive the winter.

As many as 90% of Kingfishers die in a severe winter.

They also eat many aquatic insects.

There are 90 different species of Kingfisher although only one breeds in Europe.

Many of the Kingfishers never eat fish or go near water.

Kingfisher habbits !!

The kingfisher bird is a fishing bird, whose population is decreasing, according to Allaboutbirds.org. There are several different species of kingfisher birds. Most of them live in tropical areas, which means that they don't have to face winter conditions that hinder the hunt for food.

Setting

Belted kingfisher birds live in areas with bodies of water such as lakes, ponds and wetlands, according to Wild-bird-watching.com. They are commonly seen throughout North America, according to Allaboutbirds.org. During the winter they are more commonly found along the coast, and by streams and lakes, according to Allaboutbirds.org.

Food

Kingfisher birds feed off of the food they find in and around their natural habitats, which is mostly small fish. They commonly eat tadpoles, frogs and insects, according to Wild-bird-watching.com.

Fishing

They fish by perching above the water and then plunging head-first into the water to capture food, according to Allaboutbirds.org. Adult birds teach their young how to hunt food for themselves by dropping dead food into waters so that their offspring can catch them, according to Allaboutbirds.org.

Migration

Most kingfisher birds migrate south for the winter, but some males stay behind, according to the University of Massachusetts. Those that stay behind face the problem of finding water that hasn't frozen over in order to find food.

Breeding

When kingfisher birds are in breeding season they defend their territory against other birds in couples, according to Allaboutbirds.org. The areas where kingfisher birds can breed have expanded by human activity such as building gravel pits, which helps by creating nesting sites, according to Allaboutbirds.org.

Nests

Both the male and female kingfisher birds help to construct the nests, according to Wild-bird-watching.com. The male sticks with the female throughout the construction of the nest, the incubation of the eggs and the raising of their offspring, according to Wild-bird-watching.com. The nests are built by the birds digging a tunnel close by where they fish. The tunnel allows the eggs to be in total darkness. Nests are usually built in eroding banks.

Belted Kingfisher - with fish - Bird Collection Mugs from Zazzle.com

Belted Kingfisher - with fish - Bird Collection Mugs from Zazzle.com

Kingfisher: Green Kingfisher

Kingfisher: Green Kingfisher: "This type of Kingfisher is a beautiful olive green bird that can be found in southern Texas in the United States and south throughout Centr..."

Green Kingfisher

This type of  Kingfisher is a beautiful olive green bird that can be found in southern Texas in the United States and south throughout Central and South America to central Argentina.

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kingfisher calls

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White throated Kingfisher bird's

Kingfisher attack

Bird | White-throated kingfisher | Pakistan | Album | Shahinshah

Bird | White-throated kingfisher | Pakistan | Album | Shahinshah

Kingfisher: Woodland Kingfisher

Kingfisher: Woodland Kingfisher

Woodland Kingfisher

BEAUTIFUL BIRD

Kingfisher: Kingfisher

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Kingfisher

The Kingfisher is a small bird with a very short and sweet tail but has large head and long dagger-like bill.
Its plumage is beautifully bright.. the back and tail are iridescent electric blue, the crown and wings are greenish blue. The underparts and cheeks are an orange-red, and the throat and collar are white. The legs are red.
The sexes are very similar, the main difference being the colour of the lower mandible: the male's bill is all black..
The female's is black with red on the lower mandible.
Juveniles are similar to adults, but the plumage is duller and greener and the tip of the bill is white.There are roughly 90 species of kingfisher. All have large heads, long, sharp, pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. Most species have bright plumage with little differences between the sexes. Most species are tropical in distribution, and a slight majority are found only in forests.
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There is much dispute as to whether Kingfishers have a song. Whether or not they do, the commonest call is a shrill whistle "chi-keeeee".
Nesting

The nest is usually in a tunnel, 30-90 cm (12-36") long, in a bank next to slow-moving water. The tunnel is excavated by both sexes and is not lined with any material.
The eggs are white, smooth and glossy, and are almost round at 23 mm by 20 mm. The male and female take turns incubating the eggs, and both adults feed the young.
Conservation
Kingfishers have returned to many once polluted rivers in industrial towns and cities. Despite this, pollution remains a threat, and the Kingfisher remains an amber listed species of conservation concern.
Behaviour

The kingfishers feed on a wide variety of items. They are most famous for hunting and eating fish, and some species do specialise in catching fish, but other species take crustaceans, frogs and other amphibians, annelid worms, molluscs, insects, spiders, centipedes..
Relationship with humans
Kingfishers are generally shy birds, but in spite of this they feature heavily in human culture, generally due to their bright plumage or in some species interesting behaviour.
The White-throated Kingfishers do not live in communities. White-throated Kingfishers hunt alone, but they may perch as close as 100 m apart without showing much hostility. They eat a wide range of food, and are indigenous to Singapore.
the kingfisher is a skillful bird which catches fish.
It is also a colourful bird.The kingfisher flaps straight into his home,a nest it builds by tunneling into the side of a side of a bank.It lays
its eggs at the end of the tunnel.