Belted Kingfisher male with fish - a photo on Flickriver

            A male kingfisher (no rufous on the breast) works to maneuver a fish to swallow it after a shallow dive in Beauvais Lake, in the provincial park of the same name in southwestern Alberta.
   

Taken on: May 17, 2020

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Michael W Potter

Luminous Compositions

gathering food

fish-eating bird

piscivore

Belted Kingfisher

Megaceryle alcyon

Ceryle alcyon (former binomial)

Alcedinidae

Kingfishers family « less

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Camera: Canon EOS 70D, f/9.0, 1/640 sec, 562mm, ISO 1000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 70D
Lens:	150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM \| Contemporary 015
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	562mm
ISO:	1000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 (Macintosh)
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