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3 Kingfishers

Hello and welcome to Kingfisher Class. We are Year 3 children and our teacher is Mr Miller.

Kingfisher Facts We researched these facts together using the internet during Week 1.

Kingfisher definition: An often brightly coloured bird with a large head and long sharp beak. 

Kingfishers really like water, such as lakes, canals and rivers. 
Kingfishers are around all of the year. 
They eat fish and aquatic insects. 
They live all over the UK, in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 
Kingfishers lay 6 or 7 eggs in March or April. 
The eggs hatch 19-21 days later. They leave the nest after 24-25 days. 
They don’t live very long. The oldest one recorded was only 7 ½ years old. 
Lack of food and the cold means many kingfishers do not survive. 
The main predator is a cat.

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