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Seeing a kingfisher always brings a smile to my face. Most of the time you only catch a brief glimpse of it\u2014a bright blue flash skimming low over the water. If you know how to recognize its high-pitched call, you can sometimes hear it approaching before it even comes into view. Although I have photographed kingfishers many times before, it never gets old capturing this remarkable bird. Its almost un-Dutch, vividly colored plumage makes every encounter feel special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though kingfishers have become more common in recent years due to milder winters, they remain highly dependent on a watery, fish-rich habitat. A single harsh winter can be enough to cause the population to decline dramatically again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seeing a kingfisher always brings a smile to my face. Most of the time you only catch a brief glimpse of it\u2014a bright blue flash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[150],"tags":[162,163],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-netherlands","tag-ijsvogel","tag-kingfisher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IJsvogel-14.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4J78K-RL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}