New artwork for sale! - "The mischievous kingfishers" - https://t.co/Wuze9JjgMB

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kingfishers tend to live in empty cavities, oftentimes burrowing underground! -rainer

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My kingfishers THEY ARE INTERESTING

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. 『カワセミとハチドリとハシビロコウ』
(Kingfishers, Hummingbirds, and Shoebills)

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Who loves kingfishers? I’d so love to see one Handmade Watercolour Kingfisher in flight cards https://t.co/dZu5nUWOLT

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After too many Kingfishers at Masala Zone

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Need mothers day cards? All our range is back in. Nuthatches, Swallows, Lapwings, Kingfishers and many more!! Here: https://t.co/L3FQYKeilg

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A Catesby River Bird - This week we return to our 1974 folio facsimile set of Mark Catesby’s 'Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands' originally published between 1729 & 1747. Learn more about these Kingfishers and Herons: https://t.co/WgWs2ZxNb6

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🦉 Schreibers kleiner Atlas der einheimischen Vögel. v.1.
Esslinger, J.F. Schreiber[n.d.]

During territorial disputes Kingfishers may try 2 grab & hold beaks of rivals underwater! C our (fig. 9) https://t.co/NbbWJTKhI7

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Really Interesting feature on tonight's about how Kingfishers take advantage of the presence of otters. Here's my kingfisher drawing, ink pen and watercolor

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Halcyone, daughter of wind god Aeolus, married King Ceyx. One winter he drowned at sea. Halcyone was grief-stricken

In pity, the gods turned the couple into kingfishers. While they nested in winter, her father quietened the winds: the Halcyon Days

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Birds of the park: A monograph of the Alcedinidae : or, family of kingfishers, by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, 1868-71, BHL/Harvard ......https://t.co/1RSCmRf9Dx

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I drew a Paradise Kingfisher!

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Pied kingfishers are expert hunters. They hover in the air to locate unsuspecting prey before snatching it with their dagger-like beaks. Then, returning to the perch, they gobble it up. Finally, they chill without any help from Netflix.

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Day 29: Process

Common (Alcedo atthis)
Until 2020, I had no special relationship to kingfishers. But after ringing my first watching them intensely, handling them: This is one of the most incredible birds I know!
- 2014

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I'll end with a kingfisher-themed post, Pacific- and Mariana-style (Todiramphus, former Collared Kingfishers).

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