Wood Kingfishers
Order: Coraciiformes. Family: Halcyonidae
Wood or tree kingfishers are medium to large kingfishers with large heads, long pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails. One species has been introduced to Tasmania.
- Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae (I)
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“I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear
Such gallant chiding; for besides the groves,
The skies, the fountains, every region near
Seemed all one mutual cry. I never heard
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”
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“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;”
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