Todiramphus sanctus

Sacred Kingfisher at Hawker, ACT

Todiramphus sanctus at Hawker, ACT - 23 Jan 2019 10:27 AM
Todiramphus sanctus at Hawker, ACT - 23 Jan 2019 10:27 AM
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Identification history

Todiramphus sanctus 24 Jan 2019 natureguy
Todiramphus sanctus 23 Jan 2019 AlisonMilton

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Confirming the nest site reported on Sunday. It took half an hour of so of sitting and waiting for them to trust me enough to stop keeping a watch on me, then saw two birds flying together. Took another two hours before they trusted me enough to take food up to the nest.

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Additional information

  • True Nesting site

Species information

  • Todiramphus sanctus Scientific name
  • Sacred Kingfisher Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1096.69m Recorded at altitude
  • 510 images trained Machine learning

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