Kingfisher, also known as emerald. Its whole body is emerald blue and its abdomen is brown. It usually stays at the water's edge in a straight posture, motionless for a long time, waiting for fish and shrimp to swim by. Whenever it sees fish and shrimp, it immediately jumps into the water in a fast and fierce posture and catches it with its mouth. Sometimes, you can see its wings flying 5-7 meters above the water, as if hanging in the air, looking down at the water. Kingfisher's nest is often built in the sand beside the field and dug into a tunnel about 60 cm deep. Kingfisher's feathers glow because of refraction. In the past, imperial costumes and "crested rockhopper" were decorated with kingfisher feathers, which did not fade after a long time.

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1 Kingfisher in Buddhism and Buddhism. Blue-black from forehead to pillow, mixed with turquoise horizontal spots, bright turquoise blue on the back and chestnut brown on the abdomen; There are light-colored horizontal spots on the top of the head; Red mouth and feet. It looks like a woodpecker from a distance. Because the feathers on the back and face are blue and shiny, they are commonly known as kingfishers. There are three kinds of kingfishers in China: spotted kingfishers, blue-eared kingfishers and common kingfishers. The last one is very common and widely distributed.

Kingfishers often stand upright on low branches or rocks near the water, waiting for opportunities to prey on fish and shrimp, so they are also called fish tigers and fish dogs.

I like to live in rivers, lakes, irrigation canals and other waters with shrubs or sparse forests and clear and slow water flow. Lonely, he usually lives alone on branches or rocks near the water, waiting for an opportunity to hunt. His food is mainly small fish, eating crustaceans, various aquatic insects and its larvae, as well as small frogs and a small amount of aquatic plants. The breeding season of kingfishers in southern China is from April to July every year. Kingfisher can use its thick mouth to make a hole in the earth cliff, or it can build a nest in the tunnel of Tianba. Like woodpeckers, these cave birds generally have no bedding at the bottom of the cave, and their eggs are laid directly on the nest. Each nest lays 6-7 eggs. The egg is pure white, bright and slightly spotted, with a size of about 28 mm× 18 mm, with 1 ~ 2 nests every year; The incubation period is about 2 1 day. Both males and females hatch eggs, but only females feed their chicks. Kingfisher has beautiful feathers and can be used as an ornament. But fish addiction is not conducive to fishery production.

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Some photos of kingfisher:

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