Kingfisher. A beautiful bird

in #bird6 years ago (edited)

Hi, everyone. How you all? Hope so all you guys are great with great health. Today I am here again with a new topic about Kingfisher.

  1. There are 87 changed species of kingfisher in the world, but only one, Alcedo atthis, types in Europe.

  1. Our Kingfisher has a vast world spreading, and can be constituted as far east as the Solomon Islands.
  2. There are some other species of kingfisher that appearance much like our bird: the excessive blue kingfisher, for example, has alike markings but is much larger. It has the suitable Latin name of Alcedo Hercules.
  3. The biggest kingfisher in the world is Australia’s laughing kookaburra. It weights up to 500gm, or 15 times as much as our bird.
  4. To distinguish our kingfisher from the additional 86 species, it is formally known as the river kingfisher.
  5. Several of the world’s kingfishers don’t eat fish and often go near the water.
  6. In several parts of north and Eastern Europe, the kingfisher is travelling, some itinerant up to 3,000km to their wintering grounds.
  7. The German name of Eisvogel (icebird) reproduces the fact that refugees move south to Germany in response to cold circumstances to the north.
  8. Rare British kingfishers ever move more than 250km, though cold climate will quick them to move to the coast.
  9. Though fish form from an important portion of the kingfisher’s diet, it also eats several aquatic insects, reaching from dragonfly nymphs to sea.
  10. In the winter, a kingfisher requirement to eat around 15 or 16 minnows a day.
  11. Though grown-ups pair in the autumn, they retain distinct lands until the spring, when they slowly merge together.
  12. Kingfishers are famous for the unhygienic conditions of their nests, which develop littered with mucks, pellets and fish bones.
  13. Kingfishers variety extensively in their quest for fish, and will frequently raid garden ponds.
  14. Kingfishers fly at only one step: fast and straight, but they can fly when fishing.

Regards:@Huriya

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