Description

Metalbird Kotare with baby

Kotare (kingfishers) are beautiful birds with stunning blue and yellow colours. They make a lovely silhouette against the sky. No wonder that the metalbird kotare kingfisher is part of the Metal Bird family. And we now feature the kotare with baby kotare. Cute!

We love these metalbirds!!!

Size:

• Approx. size metal bird kotare with baby: 300mmx190mm.

About Kotare

The kingfisher is a distinctive bird with a green-blue back, buff to yellow undersides and a large black bill. It has a broad black eye-stripe, and a white collar in adults. The females are slightly greener and duller.

Kingfishers have a wide range of unmusical calls. The most distinctive of which is the staccato ‘kek-kek-kek’ territorial call. Their status is ‘Native, Not Threatened’.

Habitats

Kingfishers are found throughout the country in both coastal and inland freshwater habitats. They live in a wide range of habitats, including forest, river margins, farmland, lakes, estuaries and rocky coastlines.

Diet

Their diet in estuarine mudflats is mainly small crabs, with a range of tadpoles, freshwater crayfish and small fish in freshwater habitats. In open country they eat insects, spiders, lizards, mice and small birds.

Source: Department of Conservation