Worklog

Name

Date

Work

Anon

1/12/16

Prey/predator interaction,
movie editing (10/12/16)

Song

1/12/16

Dispersal

Tommy

1/12/16

Finding information about

foraging behavior of the
species.

Nancy

1/12/16

Habitat, Migration

Tommy

3/12/16

-Building the story board

Nancy

3/12/16

-Fill picture & description

in story board.
-Write bibliography

Tommy

9/12/2016

-Finding videos related to

background information
and foraging behavior.

Nancy

11/12/16

-Finding migration,
dispersal, and foraging
videos

Tommy

13/12/16

-Speak about the

foraging behavior of the
organism

Nancy

12/12/16

-Speak about migration

Song

12/12/16

-Video Editing

Song

14/12/16

-Audio recording on
dispersal and
background

Anon

14/12/16

-Audio on Background
and Prey/Predator
Interaction.c

(Background)
Belted Kingfishers are stocky, large-headed birds with a mohawk that come with a piercing
rattle.
These kingfisherss upperparts are powder blue with white spotting on the wings and tail.
The underparts are white with a broad, blue band across their chest. Females; however, are
more colorful with a broad rusty band on their bellies.
Belted Kingfishers spend much of their time perched along the edges of streams, lakes, and
estuaries, searching for food.
Kingfishers live near the natural water sources, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes, and estuaries.
They nest in burrows of soft earthen banks in which they can dig into. Kingfishers spend
their winters in areas where the water doesnt freeze so that they can continue searching for
their aquatic prey.

Prey and Predator

Kingfishers eat molluses fishes and a couple types of crustaceans
Theyre hunted by hawks, mammals, and snakes
Territory of 300-500 meters of shorelines
Belted kingfishers don't have many natural predators. They are eaten by some larger
predatory birds like some kinds of hawks and falcons. The species that eat them are Cooper's
hawks, Sharp-shinned hawks, and Peregrine falcons. If pursued by one of these birds, belted
kingfishers dive underwater until the predator goes away. The light underside and darker
back of the kingfisher works as camouflage.
Food chain position: in the freshwater/saltwater food web, theyre the top predator. But
theyre in turn eaten by hawks and falcons in other webs.
Migration
In Summer, Belt Kingfishers breed in northern Alaska and Canada, and these birds
will migrate to Mexico, Central America to northern Venezuela and Colombia in Winter.
Of the populations that do migrate, males seem to travel shorter distances than
females.
However, resident to long-distance migrant. In much of the breeding range open
water is available even in the winter, the kingfishers may stay year-round.
Dispersal
Some populations of this species do not make significant seasonal migrations. The Belted
Kingfisher only-dispersal time is when theyre a juvenile as they do not come back. Adults
one ;however, do come back seasonal whenever they move, thus its considered a migration.
Foraging behavior
Belted kingfishers live along the banks of lakes and rivers and typically feeds on
small fish, usually those less than 4-5" long. It also eats crayfish, frogs, tadpoles,
and aquatic insects. It is also reported to eat small mammals, young birds, lizards
and even berries at times. Crayfish is a second option to all other prey items if they

cant compete with the others or the water is too murky. In colder waters, they eat
cold-water fish like sculpins and trout. In warmer water, they eat slower-moving fish
including suckers, sticklebacks, perch, and pike. If there are no fish to eat, they eat
tadpoles or baby salamanders. Invertebrates such as c addisflies are also are a prey
of the belted kingfisher. Bones, scales, and other indigestible parts of prey are
gobbled up later as pellets. The bird uses the strategy of plunging its head first into
water, capturing fish near surface with its beak. It watches for fish from branch, wire,
rock, or other perch above water, or may hover above water before diving. After
catching their prey, belted kingfishers return to their hunting perch,They strike the
prey against the tree limb or stab it with their bill to stop it from moving. Then they
toss it into the air and eat its head first. Because the bird usually eats other animals,
it is considered a carnivore.