Scientific Name: Ceryle alcyon

Residency: Throughout Arizona during winter.

Diet: Eats fish, amphibians, reptiles, and insects.

Predators: Raptors, Cooper?s Hawk, and Northern Harrier.

Nesting: A tunnel in a vertical bank, can be 3-15 ft. in length. The female lays 5-7 white eggs per clutch (one brood per year).

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Notes: Tunnel excavation is done with the bill, will alternating kicking dirt out or excavating; can dig about a foot a day.

Photo: Taken at Coon Bluff on November 10, 2007. For more photos, click on camera icon. 

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