Discover the Birds of Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village

Click the poster image above or this link Birds of Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village to see photographs of more than 100 species of birds that live or visit Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. The poster, with birds drawn by an Agahozo-Shalom student, is featured at several locations at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda.

Kings of the catch

Kingfishers use their long, sharp bills to snag their prey. As the name suggests, they can be experts at plucking fish from the water, but many kingfishers do not eat fish at all. These non-fishing kingfishers are still pros at catching invertebrates and even vertebrates (I have seen a kingfisher eat another bird in Israel!). Let's take a look at some of East Africa's spectacular kingfishers.

The malachite kingfisher (Alcedo cristata) spends its time around marshes
and swamps and catches aquatic critters. Mabamba Swamp, Uganda