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Volume 40 • January 13, 2023
Welcome to
🦜 The Flyer 🦜
by Flying Colors
Every other Friday, we share original content written by the Flying Colors team, fascinating stories & tidbits from the world of birding, curated products, epic bird photos, and more.
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Bird of the Week: The Belted Kingfisher
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Found in North and Central America
 Hear Their Calls
The Belted Kingfisher is known for its legendary mohawk, superior fishing skills, and quick, rattling call. Kingfishers lead the quiet, solitary life of a fisherman. They wait on a perch above rivers and lakes to get a good look at their aquatic prey (like small fish, crayfish, and insects), then swiftly swoop down and make the catch.
Belted Kingfishers built their nests in burrows along the shoreline — both parents help dig a three- to six-foot-long tunnel that slopes upward (presumably to keep out water) with a nest at the very end.
Fun fact: Belted Kingfishers are a rare bird species in which the female is more brightly colored than the male. Males have a white chest and telltale collar with navy-gray feathers, while females have some rusty coloring along their chests. |
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Give a Hoot
Birding bits you should know about this week
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Our Bird Seed Brings All the Birds to the Yard |
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Choose from three custom blends — Pine Plains, Woodstock, and Millbrook — all made with 100% USDA certified organic ingredients and hand-mixed with love in New York's Hudson Valley. |
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Your Shot
An amazing bird photo taken by one of our community members. Submit yours to hello@flyingcolors.co to be considered for an upcoming edition!
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The kingfisher rises out of the black wave
like a blue flower, in his beak
he carries a silver leaf. I think this is
the prettiest world--so long as you don't mind
a little dying, how could there be a day in your
whole life
that doesn't have its splash of happiness?
– From “The Kingfisher” by Mary Oliver
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About Us
Flying Colors makes premium organic wild bird food, offering ethically sourced, toxin-free seeds and nuts of the highest quality to nourish wild birds of all types and inspire birders of all ages. Each specialty blend and single origin creation is rigorously sourced & researched, and every jar is produced with love & packaged by hand in small batches in New York's Hudson Valley and tested in our own backyards.
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