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Pied Kingfisher catching fish in split second - BBC wildlife

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Uploaded by on Apr 7, 2008

Kingfishers beat the reaction time of a fish by 1/50th of a second. Hunting fish from the air, it seems, is harder than it looks for the birds. Amazing rare nature photography in this high-flying video from BBC Worldwide.

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  • There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

    Stephen Wright

  • These guys are amazing. Imagine having that kind of eyesight, to clearly see a small fish below the surface of less-than-crystal-clear water from that far up. Then to have such incredible mastery of the air, hovering silently above, then diving like a missile. All the while, just naturally doing differential calculus in your head to figure out the *actual* location of your prey as distorted by refraction. Then blasting through with water smacking your eyes, and STILL making the catch!

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  • Great video... :) thanks for sharing... :)

  • Allahu Akbar

  • simply amazing

    

  • Kingfishers are master killers

  • very interesting!!

    cheers fort this upload

  • I love how they disected the details of the attack in this vid! very interesting!

  • I wonder how much they had to pay the kingfisher to get this footage?

  • INACREDITÁVEIS VIDEOS COMO FORAM GRAVADOS....

  • those who don't like , myb they don't eat fishes! or they do watch news on Radio!

  • and i thought fishing was easy this bird makes it look like rocket science

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