Kingfishers for fishing
When I was a child, I lived in the countryside, and in the summer I could hear the sound of kingfishers, and I could always find it by looking for it on the branches of the river.
At that time, it was always amazed by its 100% hit fishing skills, and it seemed that it never worried about eating and drinking as long as there was water.
Oriental kingfisher
Common in the mainland is like this oriental kingfisher in the picture, the feathers are emerald green, the abdomen is orange or red, and its beak is black, you don't think that the kingfishers all over the world look like this, there are about 70 species of kingfishers in the world, and the species are relatively large: oriental kingfishers, laughing kingfishers, white-throated kingfishers, etc.
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The kingfisher is one of Australia's iconic birds, used as a mascot at the Sydney Olympics, one of the largest kingfishers in the kingfisher family, and a large kingfisher in Africa, named Big Fish Dog.
Laughing kingfisher size
Big fish dog
The representative kingfisher in Europe is called the white-breasted kingfisher.
White-breasted kingfisher
White-breasted kingfisher
The white-breasted kingfisher, also known as the white-breasted jadeite, belongs to the kind of kingfisher with a relatively high appearance, and is named because of the whiteness of the chest.
Kingfishers eat mice
All kingfishers are carnivorous, most of them mainly eat fish, and sometimes crabs, mollusks and aquatic insects as food, like kingfishers eat mice is relatively rare, which is generally only large kingfishers can do. There are also kingfishers that eat snakes, which usually occur when snakes invade kingfisher territory or eat their eggs.
Kingfishers eat snakes
When the kingfisher is fishing, it plunges into the water like a torpedo, how does it aim at the target and catch the prey?
It turns out that the eyes of the kingfisher have transparent eyelids, when they want to enter the water, just like wearing swimming goggles, they can see things clearly in the water, but most of the time to catch the prey in the water is very short, and they themselves do not know whether they have caught the fish, which is what we sometimes see, the kingfisher catches the fish, but it is inserted with its mouth, not to hook up.
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Well, we all know that kingfishers love fish so much. It is also known that fish have bones, but does the kingfisher digest the bones as well?
When I was a child, I also thought that kingfisher digested the bones, and finally pulled the off, and later I learned that there was no!
Kingfisher actually has a magical stomach, it can digest the fish little by little, that is, first digest the head, then digest the stomach, and then digest the tail, this process can last for several weeks, so to ensure that the kingfisher will not be hungry in a short period of time, and the last remaining fish bones, will be digested by the kingfisher into a granular clump, spit out again, and, it will put this lump of fish bones back into its nest, used to hatch the cubs, so ah, the kingfisher's nest is very smelly is this reason.
Kingfisher fishing
Kingfisher is monogamous, and in the raising of cubs is also a joint task of parenting, generally kingfishers will lay 3-5 eggs, compared to other animals, the male will be more colorful than the female feathers, kingfishers are similar to humans, male than the female plain much more.
Kingfisher cubs
After about 20 days of incubation, the kingfisher cubs hatch one after another, and until they can hunt, the kingfisher mother and the kingfisher father will hunt for them.
Kingfisher's growth
Whenever I see a kingfisher, I feel very kind, probably representing my good memories of my childhood.
So what do you think is the animal that brings you memories of your childhood?