River Kingfishers
Order: Coraciiformes. Family: Alcedinidae
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
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“Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river dragon stretched along.
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
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And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse;”
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