A beautiful Common Kingfisher / kingfisher with a small fish immediately after emerging from the splashing water.
The spread wings and splashing water make this picture very special and extremely beautiful!
The splashing colours of the kingfisher, a true fish-eater, are beautiful blue on the top and orange on the bottom with a little white on the side of the head.
A male thereby has a completely dark (black) coloured bill while the female's bill is coloured orange on the underside.
Kingfishers are territorial and live alone until they find a mate and mate in spring. After the little ones are independent, they are forced to catch fish by themselves and then chased away. The adult pair, female and male, then basically go their separate ways. Kingfishers can have a nest with young up to three times in the same year.
Although hard to find in the Netherlands, you can of course, if you pay close attention, sometimes see kingfishers flying by low over the water in a flash. They call
Conceived by Robert Kok, visualized with AI.
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