I saw this bird today and I wished I could keep it as a pet but it flew away

Can anyone identify the bird

Na fish eater.

Their is a fish pond around your area.

The bird love to feed on fingerlings and juv.

I have killed many of them on my family fish farm years ago.

Kingfisher, that's the name!

Orange beak...

Malachite kingfisher?

These sort of birds were everywhere in the neighbourhood that I grew up in. But I preferred watching the canaries instead back then.

Nature is indeed beautiful.

Word for you, OP, don't even try catching that. Don't attempt it. It's a very shy sort of bird. One suspicious movement towards it and it will naturally take off. That simple. I have experienced that a lot.

It's called a woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis), a tree kingfisher that is widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara.

You're pics are quite detailed because Google lens suggested your thread when I searched made a picture search.

Orange beak...

Malachite kingfisher?

These sort of birds were everywhere in the neighbourhood that I grew up in. But I preferred watching the canaries instead back then.

Nature is indeed beautiful.

Word for you, OP, don't even try catching that. Don't attempt it. It's a very shy sort of bird. One suspicious movement towards it and it will naturally take off. That simple. I have experienced that a lot.

U mean say him papa na Prophet Malachi?🙄