Water Kingfisher
Order: Coraciiformes. Family: Cerylidae
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 (A)
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“It may be that through habit these do best,
Coming to water clumsily undressed
Yearly; teaching their children by a sort
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—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“the mud
Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart,
The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)