belted kingfisher

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English

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Belted Kingfisher with prey

Noun

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belted kingfisher (plural belted kingfishers)

  1. Megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.
    • 1883, Maurice Thompson, “The Death of the White Heron”, in Songs of Fair Weather‎[1]:
      The jaunty wood-duck smiled and bowed;
      The belted kingfisher laughed aloud,
    • 1999, George Wilby Scotter, Edgar T. Jones, Tom J. Ulrich, Birds of the Canadian Rockies‎[2], Fifth House Publishers, page 82:
      It is called a belted kingfisher because of the blue-gray band across the breast of the male, with an additional reddish band below the blue-gray one on females.

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