American shaggy-crested belted kingfisher thought to have got blown across ocean by Atlantic storm
It is perhaps the biggest American star to visit Preston in years. A “spectacular” shaggy-crested belted kingfisher has drawn several thousand people to a nature reserve in Lancashire for one of the bird’s few recorded UK sightings in more than 100 years.
The North American bird usually migrates to Mexico or the Caribbean for winter but is thought to have ended up in Preston after getting blown across the ocean by an Atlantic storm.
