Alan McFadyen, who has been an avid wildlife photographer since 2009, captured a photo that he spent 6 years trying to get. By his count, it took him 4,200 hours and 720,000 photos to get one perfect picture of a kingfisher diving straight into the water without a single splash.
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“The shot I was looking for of the perfect, straight, splashless dive required not only being in the correct place, and a lot of luck, but also for the bird itself to be perfect,” McFadyen said. It is the effort of a dedicated professional for a unique record of the splendor of the bird.
“I would often go on and take 600 photos in one session and not a single one of them turn out to be any good. But now I look back, and at the thousands and thousands of photos I took to get this one image, it makes you realize just how much work went into getting this.”
McFadyen, who also runs a wildlife photography business, was inspired to love nature and wildlife by his grandfather. "I remember about my grandfather taking me to see the kingfisher's nest and I just remember being completely fascinated by how magnificent the birds are."
Kingfishers have a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring in all tropical and temperate regions of the world. They are absent from polar regions and some of the driest deserts in the world.
A number of species have reached island groups, particularly those in the southern and eastern Pacific Ocean. The Old World tropics and Australasia are prime areas for this group.
Kingfishers feed on a wide variety of prey. They are most famous for hunting and eating fish, and there are some species that specialize in catching fish, but other species crustaceans, frogs, and other amphibians, annelid worms, molluscs, insects, spiders, centipedes, reptiles including snakes, and even birds and mammals.
Individual species may specialize in a few items or pick up a wide variety of prey, and for species with large global distributions, different populations may have different diets. miscellaneous.
Kingfishers are territorial, some species defending their territories vigorously. And they are generally monogamous, although cooperative reproduction has been observed in some species and is quite common in others. They are beautiful birds and enchant the world as seen in the photograph taken by McFadyen.
