A short, 3-4 minutes, 4K-resolution video about the bird called the "White-throated Kingfisher".
Video by : / sujee.aryan
Nikon D500, 200-500 lens
Description:-
The White-throated Kingfisher(Halcyon smyrnensis) is a stunning member of the kingfisher family that we are bringing to you today.
White-throated kingfishers have thick, reddish-orange bills, red legs, and dark chocolate coloured heads, bellies, and shoulders. A brilliant white patch can be found on the throat and sometimes the breast. The wings and tail are bright blue with white patches on the primaries and black distal tips. The sexes appear similar. Juvenile birds are generally less brilliantly coloured with duskier bills and less brown on the wings. Young individuals may also sport a shoulder mark with extensive blue edging. White-throated kingfishers are the only South Asian kingfisher that is distinctly darker below than it is above. Adult birds weigh 65.5 to 81 grams. Basal metabolic rate has not been recorded.
They are common in agricultural areas, swamps, marshes, near ponds, lakes, in parklands and in mangrove swamps. In India they seem to be less reliant on particular aquatic habitats than other kingfishers and can be found in dry deciduous forests in addition to rice paddies, oil palm plantations, drainage ditches, gardens, fishponds and even beaches. Though they feed on fish, white-throated kingfishers are not deep divers and do not spend significant amounts of time underwater.
They are usually seen singly or in pairs. They are active during the day spending their time foraging or perching conspicuously on wires or other exposed perches within their territory. White-throated kingfishers are watch-and-wait hunters which dive onto potential prey from a perch. Their diet are carnivores (insectivores, vermivores, piscivores). They mainly hunt large crustaceans, insects, earthworms, rodents, snakes, fish, and frogs.
These kingfishers range from Turkey in the west to the Philippines in the east, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
(Data sourced from various research pages from Google)
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29 авг 2024
