The European kingfisher eats nothing but fish (writes a correspondent to a B’airarapa paper!, hut the New Zealand species does not live by fish alone, but includes mice, beetles, and other insects, Crustacea and even young and full grown birds in its diet. Many instances are on record of it seizing and devouring sparrows, green-finches, fantails, and white-eyes. Doubtless other small biros are victimised also. They are beaten Into the requisite shape, and then swallowed, sometimes laboriously.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 47
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