Like ospreys, herons and cormorants, the belted kingfisher uses that airy vantage point to scope out its surroundings. This bluish-gray bird with a white belly, white neckband and oversized head ...

While hunting the belted kingfisher perches motionless on a tree or wire, diving head first into the water and using its dagger-like beak to spear and grab fish.

Kingfishers are prolific anglers. These birds have to be because they eat their body weight in fish every day. Watch as they dive into water at breakneck speeds in search of their next meal.

A male belted kingfisher sits perched along a lakeshore hunting for food. Note the hair spike, and blue-gray breast band. Females also have the breast band, but in addition, have a rust-colored band ...

The Guam kingfisher is no longer found in Guam, but thanks to the help of a handful of zoos, including Cincinnati's, there's hope for recovery, starting on a small Pacific atoll.

Rare Bird Making a Comeback at the Albuquerque BioPark There are only about 150 Guam Kingfisher birds in the world, and they only exist in zoos like the Albuquerque BioPark.

The entire population of the Tuamotu Kingfisher -- less than 125 -- lives on one tiny island in the south Pacific, and without serious intervention, these birds will no longer exist. One ...

How a kingfisher decodes Sunderbans; bird's diet indicates diversity of mangroves Conducted by Deblina Biswas and Kaushik Deuti of the ZSI from April to July 2023, the study highlights a deeper ...

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