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So, here's the back story...we are boating down the river and there are kingfishers flying all over...pied, grey headed, malachite....on branches, hovering you name it. Our boat captain tells us to look at the top of the tree and there's a kingfisher nest....so my wife, daughter and I look and look and look and all we can see is this somewhat mottled brownish bird with a rather large beak sitting in a very large nest. We say to him, "Kingfisher" and he says yes, kingfisher nest...we look at each other and are so confused...it doesn't look like a kingfisher...it looks like a baby fish eagle, large, hooked beak...we ask again and start to question whether kingfishers metamorphose into that small beautiful bird with a pointy bill...so we finally ask, do you really mean kingfisher...and he starts to laugh...we had been seeing so many and talking about kingfishers so much that that is what came out of his mouth....of course it was a baby African Fish Eagle...and so here it is...the giant kingfisher baby masquerading as an African Fish Eagle.
Eric
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