Peter wrote There was a bird looking down from a nearby tree, but it looked
more like a
big Thrush

Kingfishers look like thrush on steriods.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger of birds.
They are blue with bulky shoulders and a white breast (sometimes a stripe of
rust feathers on the breast), big black heads with a crest of black feathers.
Their beaks are oversized for their bodies and black also.






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