African Pygmy Kingfisher

African Pygmy KingfisherThe African Pygmy Kingfisher is a small kingfisher widespread south of the Sahara. It eats insects more often than fish and searches for prey from a perch.What does it look like?An adult is a tiny kingfisher with a blue back extending to the tail and rufous underparts.How does it live?The African Pygmy Kingfisher is a small kingfisher widespread south of the Sahara. It eats insects more often than fish and searches for prey from a perch.It searches for prey from a perch and dives to the ground to catch it. It mainly eats insects, rarely eats fish, and sometimes takes small vertebrates.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.