Water Kingfishers
Order: Coraciiformes. Family: Alcedinidae
Water kingfishers are medium sized birds with large heads, long pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails.
- Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
- Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquatus
- Amazon Kingfisher Chloroceryle amazona
- Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
- American Pygmy Kingfisher Chloroceryle aenea
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“I respect the ways of old folks, but the blood of a rooster or a goat cannot turn the seasons, change the course of the clouds and fill them up with water like bladders. The other night, at the ceremony for Legba, I danced and sang my fill: I am a black man, no? and I enjoyed it like a true Negro should. When the drums beat, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel the itch in my hips and up and down my legs, I have got to join the party. But that is all.”
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“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;”
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