Philippine Kingfishers

The Philippines host a good number of kingfisher species ranging from the large Stork-billed Kingfisher usually found in coastal mangroves to the tiny Philippine Dwarf-Kingfisher found in lowland forest.

Many of the kingfisher species in the Philippines are found in forest and are therefore beginning to become rare and difficult to find due to the large scale deforestation taking place across most of the islands.

All the images below were digiscoped using a Canon S120 compact camera and a Swarovski scope.  All these images were taken deep in the forest in very low light levels with typical exposures down to one second but fortunately the birds stayed very still long enough to capture these shots.

Blue-capped Wood-Kingfisher

 Ruddy Kingfisher

 Southern Silvery Kingfisher