Kingfishers found in Singapore

When you are a beginner, you get excited about seeing birds of any kind. When you have been photographing or bird watching for sometime, it's all about ticking off groups of birds. I finally completed the Singapore kingfishers (both local and migrant) collection. But I don't think I will tire from photographing these birds as they are another of my favorite bird families.

White-throated Kingfisher

The White-throated Kingfisher is probably the most common kingfisher here but it is in certain places being displaced by the Collared Kingfishers that are moving inland from coastal areas.

Collared Kingfisher

Together with the Stork-billed Kingfisher they make up the Singapore tree kingfisher family group.

Stork-billed Kingfisher

Then there's the smallest one - the Blue-eared Kingfisher - that is from the river kingfisher family group.These deep blue jewels are about the size of a sparrow and they live within our nature reserves.

Blue-eared Kingfisher

During the Northern hemisphere winter, we get four migrant kingfishers. Two tree kingfishers join our local stock - the Black-capped Kingfisher and the Ruddy Kingfisher.

Black-capped Kingfisher

Black-capped Kingfishers can (if you are lucky) be spotted along our mangrove and river mouth (un-damed rivers) areas.

Ruddy Kingfisher

Lastly, two sparrow-sized kingfishers -the Common Kingfisher and the Black-backed Kingfisher - bring the total kingfishers found in Singapore to eight.

Common Kingfisher

The Common Kingfishers can be seen in our parks but you will have to be very observant to be able to spot them sitting quietly on plants on waters edge as they hunt fish.

Black-backed Kingfisher

The Black-backed is harder to spot as it disappears into our catchment areas and largely lives around very thick cover near water.
As for me, it is time to venture further a field to capture images of other kingfishers found around this region.