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What does kingfishers eat?

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Some kingfishers eat fishes, amphibians, crustaceans and water insects, which they catch by diving into the water head-first. Most eastern hemisphere kingfishers don't fish, and the forest or wood kingfishers may live far from water.

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Kingfisher eats fresh water fish. But most of the species do not and most of the species eat aquatic insects.

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