Belted kingfishers are busy birds. They spend a good part of their day pursuing food. Small fish, dragonfly larvae and water bugs are fair game for these year-round residents of Central Florida. I’ve ...

This kingfisher wasn't afraid of the freezing water as it dived through the ice to catch a fish for its dinner. The bird flapped its wings and hovered over the gap in the ice - and waited patiently ...

THE YARD HAD gone totally quiet. There wasn’t a breath of air. The 2017 eclipse was underway, and then a familiar sound was heard. A belted kingfisher made one pass over the yard, his call rattling ...

The Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher or the Ceylon Blue Kingfisher is a very stunning and colorful bird that can be found living in the thick, green rainforests of southwest India. Since it has such bright ...

This is the dramatic moment an amateur photographer captured a Kingfisher almost dropping its fish supper before swallowing the minnow in one gulp. David Renney was in Gosforth Park Nature Reserve in ...

WASHINGTON — A female Guam kingfisher bird, a species so endangered that it’s completely extinct in the wild, hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia earlier this month.

Like the now-dry pond named after it near the San Pedro River, the green kingfisher, once a popular attraction for birdwatchers there, is not doing well in Southern Arizona. Our region is one of only ...

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 ...

The Guam kingfisher, or Sihek in CHamoru, is an iconic species of Guam, but can no longer be found there. Pictured here are Hinanao and his mate, Tutuhan, who came from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical ...