Dacelo leachi
Coraciiformes - Alcedinidae - Kingfishers
© Davide Frigo
Distribution: Northern Australia. D.l. occidentalis Western Australia. D.l. intermedia South & south East New Guinea. D.l. cervina Melville Island.
Habitat: Savanna woodland and eucalypt open woodland & forest.
Diet: Invertebrates, small fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, small birds & bird eggs and small mammals
Breeding: Usually breeding pair and previous years young, prepare & defend nest, and incubate eggs. Nest in unlined tree hole.
Clutch size: 2 - 3 eggs
Incubation: 25-26 days
Rearing: Chicks brooded and fed by pair and previous years offspring.
Fledge age: 36 days
View Cotswold Wildlife Park protocol file >
Protocol established 2010
Used on 1 individuals
Success rate 100.00%
Rating
Protocol used for at least 5 individuals with over 75% success | |
Used by 2 or more institutions | |
Points on minimizing imprinting | |
Birds went on to produce fertile eggs | |
Birds went on to successfully parent rear |
Warning points
None
Please keep us up-to-date and contact us with your own updates or new protocols for rearing the Blue-winged Kookaburra.
Breeding and hand-rearing the Blue-winged kookaburra at the Royal Melbourne Zoo. R.W. DUNN. International Zoo Yearbook. Vol 23. Pages 181 - 183
Handbook Of The Birds Of The World. Vol 6. Mousebirds to Hornbills, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona