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 ...

I stopped at the Johns Homestead Park near Tucker last week to see what was stirring. Right off, I spotted a dark blue, medium-size bird perched on a low limb at the edge of Twin Brothers Lake, ...

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 ...

Birders across the UK have been trying to spot the elusive belted kingfisher for months, with sightings reported in Chorley’s Withnell Fold Nature Reserve, Samlesbury, the River Ribble and beyond. Now ...

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, ...

One morning last week I heard an unfamiliar sound while in my backyard. I knew it was a bird but couldn’t place it. I am not a birder, so not being able to place it was not a foreign experience. It ...

Claim to fame: Belted kingfishers are conspicuous to birders and non-birders alike because of their crested head and because of their method of diving into the water after fish. In birding circles, it ...

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 ...

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 ...