Carnivorous mammals as predators on common kingfisher nests

We traced the fate of the 1352 burrows of the common kingfisher, of which 253 (18,7%) were destroyed by wild predatory mammals. Red fox was responsible for the destruction of more than 73% nests destroyed by wild carnivorans; mustelids destroyed 2,4% of nests. Rate of the nest predation depends neither on the densisty of the kingfishers’ population, nor on the number of red foxes, nor on the number of micromammals as food items for the fox. Availability of the other food items is related to the nest predation by the red fox.