Black & White King Fisher
This morning spent sometime watching birds in a waterbody near Foreshore Estate. This one was different – it was a King Fisher but have seen them mostly having plumage of exotic cyan, blue, orange tinge ! – this had black & white predominantly. It was chased by a Crow, it was able to fly at the same place like a Hummingbird and literally nose-dive straight from a height.
Google search reveals it to be “Pied Kingfisher - (Ceryle rudis)’, a species of water kingfisher widely ...