Pied Kingfisher catching fish in split second - BBC wildlife
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Uploaded by BBCWorldwide 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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Great video... :) thanks for sharing... :)
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Allahu Akbar
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simply amazing
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Kingfishers are master killers
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very interesting!!
cheers fort this upload
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I love how they disected the details of the attack in this vid! very interesting!
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I wonder how much they had to pay the kingfisher to get this footage?
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INACREDITÁVEIS VIDEOS COMO FORAM GRAVADOS....
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those who don't like , myb they don't eat fishes! or they do watch news on Radio!
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and i thought fishing was easy this bird makes it look like rocket science
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Stephen Wright
zzinglish53 2 years ago 43
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!
JustAFocus 7 months ago 11