This interesting picture of ‘two birds on a perch’ — Small Blue Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis and Green Bee-eater - Merops orientalis — is a behaviour document captured by Star of Mysore photographer M.N. Lakshminarayana Yadav.
As an ethologist explains, the Small Blue Kingfisher, is a ‘Diving Kingfisher,’ it does not hover above the water-body to locate and hunt fish, it perches on a overhang branch on a pond or riverbank and locates fish. Once a target is set, it takes a plunge, diving into the water to catch the fish. Second, the Bee-eater is an Insectivore. It hunts Dragonflies, Bees & other flying insects that skim on the water-body.
