Next to an eagle’s call or a great blue heron’s grouchy squawking, it’s a kingfisher’s loud Morse-code-quick rattling that requires me to stop, listen and look. It’s a bird that looks pieced together ...

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 many ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s nice to know your purpose in life, and the belted kingfisher has found its true calling as the supreme catcher of fish. The kingfisher is basically like a beak with wings, diving headfirst into ...

One morning, as I am walking down the hill toward the marshy area on my road listening to the wonderful, behind-the-scenes chorus of the resident warblers — chestnut-sided, redstart, yellow, ...

Birdwatchers have been flocking to a Lancashire nature reserved in recent weeks, hoping to catch a glimpse of a rare bird that has only been seen a handful of times in the UK in the last 100 years. A ...

In 50 years of careful looking I've found two Belted Kingfisher nests. That is testimony to the general difficulty of locating one or to my specific problem. Whatever. I found one Saturday, three ...

A riverside tract that includes wetlands, forest and colorful native plants also attracts a sky full of birds.

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 ...