Showing posts with label Kingfishers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kingfishers. Show all posts

Belted kingfisher

 The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher. The belted kingfisher's breeding habitat is near inland bodies of waters or coasts across most of North America, within Canada, Alaska and the United States.

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Kingfisher

The Kingfisher  (Alcedo atthishas a palearctic breeding distribution. In large parts of its range, it is a resident bird, but Kingfishers move in the winter from the areas where the rivers freeze.



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Kingfisher bird painting by Artmagenta
Kingfisher


Bee-eater

Bee-eaters (Meropidae) are a group of birds containing three genera and twenty-seven species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea.  


The little bee-eater (Merops pusillus)


The European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)


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Kookaburra

Kookaburra sketch painting. Bird art drawing by illustrator Artmagenta
Kookaburra
The Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii) is a large species of kingfisher native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea.

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Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher

Paradise Kingfisher is a bird drawing by Artmagenta
Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher
The Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera danae), also known as the Russet Paradise Kingfisher. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.

Amazon Kingfisher

Amazon Kingfisher sketch painting. Bird art drawing by illustrator Artmagenta
Amazon Kingfisher
The Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) is a resident breeding bird in the lowlands of the American tropics from southern Mexico south through Central America to northern Argentina, with at least one bird having strayed north to Texas.


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Grey-headed kingfisher

Grey-headed kingfisher bird painting by Artmagenta
Grey-headed kingfisher

National bird of Cape Verde

The grey-headed kingfisher (Halcyon leucocephala) has a wide distribution from the Cape Verde Islands off the north-west coast of Africa to Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, east to Ethiopia, Somalia and southern Arabia and south to South Africa.

Banded Kingfisher

Banded Kingfisher bird painting by Artmagenta
Banded Kingfisher

The Banded Kingfisher (Lacedo pulchella) is a tree kingfisher found in the lowland tropical forests of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos. Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Brunei. It is extinct in Singapore.