摘要：The White-breasted Kingfisher Halcyon smyrnensis (Linnaeus, 1758) is distributed across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Egypt and Iraq (Ali & Ripley, 1983). Though a common bird in its range of distribution, studies on the species is sparse and limited to casual observation (Sen, 1994; Mukherjee, 1975; Yahya & Yasmin, 1991; Oommen & Andrews, 1996; Srinivasalu, 2004; Asokan, et al., 2009). The diet of the bird mostly consists of arthropod insects (Asokan, et al., 2009) also the bird is known to feed on vertebrates such as fishes, frogs, lizards, snakes, rodents and even small birds (Ali & Ripley, 1983; Sen, 1944; Purandare, 2008; Roberts & Priddy, 1965; Tehsin, 1989). How- ever, it is often seen that the diet of an organism is af- fected by the land use adjacent to its breeding location. Food habit data is usually useful in enhancing our un- derstanding of prey use among habitat type within the area, monitoring potential exposure to contaminants in restored populations and developing future management and conservation strategies (Carter, et al., 2003). These measures are even more important in an urban setup because of rapid rate of habitat degradation. In this note we report a case of predation of Hemidactylus aquilo- nius, Zug & Mcmahan, 2007 by Halcyon smyrnensis.
