River Kingfishers
Order: Coraciiformes Family: Alcedinidae
The river kingfishers are one of the three families of bird in the kingfisher group.
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda
- Black-capped Kingfisher Halcyon pileata
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“This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
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