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<\/p>\nThis photograph of this beautiful bird was taken whilst kayaking along the Gunbower Creek in Koondrook, northern Victoria (the creek is an anabranch of the Murray River and a beautiful spot to kayak!).<\/p>\n
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Olympus E-M1 Mark III with Panasonic Leica 200mm f\/2.8 lens. Image has been cropped.<\/p>\n
The azure kingfisher<\/b> (Ceyx azureus<\/b><\/i>) is a small kingfisher<\/a> in the river kingfisher<\/a> subfamily, Alcedininae<\/a>.<\/p>\n They are found in northern and eastern Australia<\/a> and Tasmania<\/a>, as well as the lowlands of New Guinea<\/a> and neighbouring islands, and out to North Maluku<\/a> and Romang<\/a>. However, it becomes less common in southern regions. They are generally sedentary, although some seasonal migration may occur.<\/p>\n Their habitat includes the banks of vegetated creeks, lakes, swamps, tidal estuaries, and mangroves.<\/p>\n They feed on small fish, crustaceans<\/a> (such as shrimps, amphipods<\/a> and freshwater yabbies<\/a>), water beetles, spiders, locusts, and small frogs or tadpoles.<\/p>\n The breeding season of the azure kingfisher is from September to April in northern Australia and from August to February in southern Australia.<\/p>\n They are usually silent, but make a sharp, squeaky call when breeding.<\/p>\n The above was derived from Wikipedia.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This photograph of this beautiful bird was taken whilst kayaking along the Gunbower Creek in Koondrook, northern Victoria (the creek is an anabranch of the Murray River and a beautiful spot to kayak!). Olympus E-M1 Mark III with Panasonic Leica 200mm f\/2.8 lens. Image has been cropped. The azure kingfisher (Ceyx azureus) is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[398,505,623,664,663,241,662,550,430],"class_list":["post-10075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-birds","tag-camping","tag-e-m1-mark-iii","tag-gunbower","tag-koondrook","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-murray-river","tag-panasonic-200mm-f2-8","tag-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t