One night we came across an African pygmy kingfisher quite close to the road, but the light was too bad to get a reasonable picture. A few days later, Jackson and I passed through the same area. Then it sudenly perched there, the Pygmy kingfisher - the second smallest of all kingfishers, only 12 cm (4.7 in) long. Like several other kingfishers, it is not actually a "fisher" but primarily an insectivore. It feeds on a wide range of beetles, grasshoppers, and more, but it seems to specialize in spiders. Sometimes it can supplement its diet with small frogs and even lizards. It occurs alone or in pairs and digs out its nest in sandbanks or even termite nests.