Kingfisher is a photograph by Boris Lichtman which was uploaded on September 6th, 2020.
Kingfisher
This photo was taken in June 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel. The common kingfisher hunts from a perch 1–2 m above the water. The food is mainly fish or a... more
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Kingfisher
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Boris Lichtman
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This photo was taken in June 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel. The common kingfisher hunts from a perch 1–2 m above the water. The food is mainly fish or a tadpole, as you see on the photo.
A challenge for any diving bird is the change in refraction between air and water. The eyes of many birds have two foveae (the fovea is the area of the retina with the greatest density of light receptors), and a kingfisher can switch from the main central fovea to the auxiliary fovea when it enters water; a retin
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September 6th, 2020
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