white-tailed kite

🟣This is a photo capturing the miraculous moment when a field vole caught by a white-tailed kite perfectly aligned its gaze with the camera.

The white-tailed kite is a small to medium-sized raptor characterized by its striking white and gray plumage and sharp red eyes. It's known for swooping down to catch small mammals, and the field vole, firmly gripped by its sharp talons and carried into the sky, wears an expression that evokes not so much terror as "enlightenment."

Moreover, the fact that both the bird and the mouse are in perfect focus, with the mouse's face fully facing the camera at that precise moment, is said to be a one-in-tens-of-thousands probability. This "once-in-a-lifetime" miraculous shot is a rarity even in the world of wildlife photography and has spread worldwide.

Token white-tailed kite

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