River Kingfishers
Order: Coraciiformes. Family: Alcedinidae
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
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“The name of the town isn’t important. It’s the one that’s just twenty-eight minutes from the big city. Twenty-three if you catch the morning express. It’s on a river and it’s got houses and stores and churches. And a main street. Nothing fancy like Broadway or Market, just plain Broadway. Drug, dry good, shoes. Those horrible little chain stores that breed like rabbits.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)
“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)