Showing posts with label Kingfisher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kingfisher. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Spot the birds



Photos from Olavipe. Copyright reserved.
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When did you last see a kingfisher?

Thursday, May 24, 2007

When did you last see a kingfisher?

Kingfishers are beautiful birds. They are found all around the world. But how often do people living in big cities get to see one?

I decided to do this post while reading an interesting article titled ‘Why do I do the things I do?’ last night on Jacob's Blog. It mentions that Japan designed the front portion of the super fast trains like the beak of a kingfisher to avoid sonic boom. Jacob points out that the bird’s specially formed beak helps it to traverse from air to water and back smoothly.

Immediately I searched my Olavipe pictures file and came across some kingfisher photos. Thinking that you might like to see a few of them, I am reproducing three below:





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