 
BEE-EATERS(MEROPS APIASTER) IN VICTORIAN DOME,HIGHLY COLOURFUL BIRD FROM MEDITEREANEAN REGIONS,REGULAR MIGRANT TO BRITAIN,WITH OVER A HUNDRED BEING SPOTTED BY BIRDWATCHERS ANNUALLY,BRED IN WARMER SUMMERS OF 20TH CENTURY,AND IN 2005 A PAIR ATTEMPTED TO BREED IN WORCESTERSHIRE.THESE FINE SPECIMENS ARE FROM MALTA,A COUNTRY WHOSE TRADITIONAL SHOOTING SLAUGHTER HAS REDUCED THIS AND MANY MIGRATORY BIRDS,PARTICULARLY OUR SUMMER VISITORS,TURTLE DOVES,NIGHTINGALES,WARBLERS.
EUROPEAN BEE-EATER
EUROPEAN BEE-EATER
CLOSE UP OF EUROPEAN BEE-EATER
GIANT KINGFISHER FROM CASE OF EAST AFRICAN BIRDS AS BIG AS A CROW
GIANT KINGFISHERS
NICE CASED BLACK-HEADED KINGFISHER FROM ASIA
BLUE-WINGED KOOKABURRA
CASED GREAT KINGFISHERS
SUPERB KINGFISHER WALL DOME
HARD TO BELIEVE ITS STUFFED
COLLARED KINGFISHER FROM AUSTRALIA
LABLED CASE BY WHITE OF SALISBURY
SUPERB COLOURFUL BIRD
KINGFISHER IN FLIGHT
KINGFISHER IN DOME BY LES TURNER
BLACK-HEADED KINGFISHER FROM INDONESIA
HUGE INDONESIAN BLACK CAPPED KINGFISHER
TROPICAL WHITE BREASTED KINGFISHER(HALCYON SMERNENSIS) IN GLASS DOME,ANOTHER LARGER KINGFISHER FROM ASIA MINOR TO FORMOSA
NEWLY MOUNTED KINGFISHER
KINGFISHERS(ALCEDO ATTHIS)THE HALCYON BIRD,SIMPLY GORGEOUS BIRDS
WALL CASED KINGFISHER
MOUNT BY MURRAY OF CARNFORTH
BLUE-WINGED KINGFISHER
HAND HELD MOUNT SHOWING SUPER COLOURS OF THIS FEMALE BIRD
CLOSE UP OF BRITAINS MOST COLOURFUL BIRD
CASE OF 1832 KIMGFISHERS ONE OF THE OLDEST CASES WE KNOW OF
EUROPEAN KINGFISHER(ALCEDO ATTHIS)ONE OF BRITAINS MOST STRIKINGLY COLOURFUL BIRDS,CERTAINLY THE MOST COLOURFUL VISITOR TO MY GARDEN POND,THIS IS A MALE BIRD IN A LARGE CASE OF BRITISH BIRDS,RESIDENT BREEDING BIRD BUT VERY SUSPECT TO HARD WINTERS,AS BRITISH WATERWAYS KEEP INCREASING IN QUALITY THE NUMBERS OF KINGFISHERS SHOULD RECOVER ON THEIR FORMER NUMBERS,WAS DECLINING PRIOR TO 1985,BUT SIGNS OF A RECOVERY AND WILL ALSO BENEFIT FROM MILDER WINTERS.
1879 KINGFISHER RE-MOUNTED AFTER RENOVATION
KINGFISHER IN GLASS DOME
THREE KINGFISHERS IN DOME
PIED KINGFISHER
PIED KINGFISHER
NICE CASED PIED KINGFISHER
MALACHITE KINGFISHER FROM KENYA
PYGMY OR MALACHITE KINGFISHER
  
THIS SUPERB DIAMOND GLAZED CASE BUILT AND SET,MOUNTED BY H.H.BRYANT OF WELLINGBOROUGH,A PIED KINGFISHER(CERYLE RUDIS)COMMON TO VERY COMMON AFRICAN KINGFISHER,
THE CLOSE UP HOVERING IN WOODLAND POOLS OF THIS BIRD AND THE TINY MALACHITE KINGFISHER,BRING BACK MEMORIES OF KENYAN SAFARIS TO ME.
BELTED KINGFISHER(MEGACERYLE ALCYON)FEMALE,NORTH AMERICAS MOST COMMON KINGFISHER,VICTIRIAN SPECIMEN AWAITING RENOVATION AND SUITABLE DOME.OVER TWICE THE SIZE,AND MUCH MORE STOCKIER THAN EUROPEAN COUNTERPART.
KINGFISHER IN WALL CASE
WHITE-BREASTED KINGFISHER
WAXWING(BOMBACILLA GARRULUS)STARLING SIZED WINTER VISITOR,HARD WINTERS IN SCANDINAVIA AND SIBERIA CAN MEAN WAXWING YEARS OFHUGE INVASIONS,USUALLY AROUND 100 BIRDS ARE SEEN IN BRITAIN,BUT IN SOME YEARS THIS DRAMATIC INCREASE CAN REACH THOUSANDS WHICH FEED ON OUR PARKLANDS AND HEDGEROW HAWTHORNS,ROWAN,WHITEBEAM AS WELL AS FALLEN FRUITS,EVEN RARER IS THE VISIT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BOHEMIAN WAXWING TO OUR SHORES.
WALL CASED WAXWING
GIANT KINGFISHER FROM CASE OF AFRICAN BIRDS
MALACHITE KINGFISHER FROM KENYA
TWO LOVELY KINGFISHERS IN COLOURFUL CASE OF MIXED BIRDS
EUROPEAN HOOPOE
EXOTIC KINGFISHER IN CASE |
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