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The Eastern Belted Kingfisher, Megaceryle Alcyon Alcyon (Linnaeus), in Relation to Fish Management

 

作者: J.Clark Salyer,   KarlF. Lagler,  

 

期刊: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society  (Taylor Available online 1949)
卷期: Volume 76, issue 1  

页码: 97-117

 

ISSN:0002-8487

 

年代: 1949

 

DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1946)76[97:TEBKMA]2.0.CO;2

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

The kingfisher is the most common and universally distributed bird predator of fish in Michigan. Its principal migration routes are along the Great Lakes shores. Nesting territories are established along streams and lake shores; they are usually larger in the former than in the latter. The kingfisher is diurnal in its feeding with three peaks of activity–morning, afternoon, and early evening. First feeding of fledgelings is on insects; this food is followed by crayfish, then by fish. Fish eaten average about 2.3 inches in length and at fish hatcheries are mostly the species being propagated. On natural waters the food consists mostly of non-food and non-game fishes and crayfish. Predation pressure varies with season and within season according to weather, nest distribution, and environmental suitabliity of waters for feeding activity. Because of their feeding proclivities, it is undesirable to have kingfishers about fish hatcheries and rearing stations. At present, general control on natural waters is not biologically justified.

 

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