The Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a good luck charm for anglers, most often observed along wooded streams. When you see one of these distinctive birds perched on a snag, or flying overhead, ...

In hilarious images, the bird unapologetically flouts the rules as it lands on a sign in Kirkcudbrightshire that specifically prohibits anyone from fishing or hunting for fish. The kingfisher ...

[Narrator] Ah the life of a fish. So serene, so safe from the many predators on land. Well, never mind then. That was a kingfisher. So named because it's good a fishing for kings or something. You'll ...

Despite occurring throughout nearly all of North America, the belted kingfisher is uncommon and solitary. Occupying lakes, rivers, ponds and streams, it uses its stout bill to capture crayfish and ...

What Does a Belted Kingfisher Bird Look Like? Like flycatchers, kingfishers perch on treetops or exposed branches to survey ...

Kingfishers live in a hole in the ground. Technically, they nest at the end of a long burrow scraped into the face of a steep earthen bank of some kind, a ditch, a shoreline, a sand pit, a dirt pile, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- It's Thursday and you know that means Bird of the Week; however this month, we're adding a bit of trivia with it. This week, we're looking at the Belted Kingfisher. The ...

Recently, while sitting along a quiet stretch of the Eagle River, a rattling “kek-kek-kek” caught my ear. A large darting blue-gray bird flashed by in flight just over the water’s surface, swooped up ...

URBANA — The idea came to Spencer Hulsey in a doodle. During a physics discussion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she idly sketched out a belted kingfisher, a blue and orange bird ...

Photographer’s description: “Last summer, I photographed kingfisher parents feeding their almost-full-grown young at the pond on the north end of Golden Gardens. This week, I returned to the pond when ...