Kingfishers

"A kingfisher plunged down like a stone

in a blue flash falling,

bending reeds were softly blown,

lily-leaves were sprawling." (Adventures of Tom Bombadil)

The smallest of Endor's fisherfowl, the kingfisher is also the most attractive. It has a large, silvery bill and silver, blue, orange and white feathers. The kingfisher's riverbank home belies its beauty, though, for it is little more than a dirty hole full of old fish bones and rotting mess. Besides fish, the kingfisher preys on insects, centipedes, and small lizards and amphibians.