Subject: Re: Kingfisher nesting habits
Date: Mar 7 07:32:29 1997
From: Raymond Korpi - rkorpi at clark.edu


On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Michael Price wrote:
> I thought it interesting that, in an area in which they clearly were
> pioneers, the swallows migrated in first. I'd wonder if in areas where both
> species are common breeding species and might be competitors for nest
> tunnels whether they'd be competitive on being first back, too.

I don't know about competition, but I have heard of many examples of
species in banks like this breeding next to each other. The Tumalo, OR,
bank swallow colony had a barn owl near it a couple of years ago, and my
father reported a Belted Kingfisher nesting in the middle of a Bank
Swallow colony for 2 or 3 years in a row. He and a friend were banding
the swallows; I don't know that they ever caught the kingfisher there
(though they have caught one elsewhere--it was his 100th species out of the
net). RK

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