Synopsis
The highly skilled hunter the kingfisher can best be seen in slow motion.
- Programme: Natural World
- Series: 2015-2016
- Episode: Ireland's Wild River: The Mighty Shannon
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2015
- Biology | Ecology | Adaptations, interdependence and competition | Adaptations
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