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By 2005 it was reported that more birds, including kingfishers, were nesting on the island and the rare Cetti's warbler was often spotted.
By 2005 it was reported that more birds, including kingfishers, were nesting on the island and the rare Cetti's warbler was often spotted.
All kingfishers were formerly placed in one family, Alcedinidae, but recent research suggests that this should be divided into three.
In the past, all kingfishers were placed in the Alcedinidae, but it became clear that the three subfamilies diverged early, and the Halcyonidae ( tree kingfisher | tree kingfishers ) and Cerylidae ( water kingfishers ) are usually now treated as full families, with the Alcedinidae as the basal lineage in the kingfisher clade.
When their father was slain by Heracles, they threw themselves into the sea, and were transformed into halcyons ( kingfishers ) by Amphitrite.
Whilst in the shade of a large pomelo ( lucbán ) tree, the trio were attracted to a couple of kingfishers ( salacsác ) that were singing.

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The group is treated either as a single family, Alcedinidae, or as a suborder Alcedines containing three families, Alcedinidae ( river kingfishers ), Halcyonidae ( tree kingfishers ), and Cerylidae ( water kingfishers ).

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The Hoopoe is classified in the Coraciiformes clade, a group that also includes kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, and woodhoopoes ( forming a clade with this one according to Hackett et al.
At one time or another, they have been allied with owls, swifts, kingfishers, hoopoes, mousebirds, hornbills, rollers, bee-eaters, woodpeckers, trogons and hummingbirds.
The river kingfishers or Alcedinidae, are one of the three families of bird in the kingfisher group.
The river kingfishers family Alcedinidae is one of nine in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the motmots, bee-eaters, todies, rollers, ground-rollers, Cuckoo Roller and two other families of kingfishers.
The water kingfishers or Cerylidae are one of the three families of kingfishers, and are also known as the cerylid kingfishers.
They generally have syndactyly, with three forward-pointing toes ( and toes 3 & 4 fused at their base ), though in many kingfishers one of these is missing.
The roller family Coraciidae is one of nine in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the motmots, bee-eaters, todies, ground-rollers, Cuckoo Roller and three families of kingfishers.
The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of the country have settled there attracted by the successful tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of swamps that makes this low-rainfall area ( average ) one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world with 400 species of birds including water birds, pelicans, kingfishers, crakes, hammerkops and 47 types of raptor.
It is one of the most important, largest and most attractive preserved intact wetlands in Europe, hosting about 260 various bird species such as ( wild geese and ducks, Great White Egret, White Stork, Black Stork, White-tailed Eagle, crows, coots, gulls, terns, kingfishers, and European Green Woodpecker.
Outside one can see crested serpent eagles, kingfishers, and Asian fairy bluebirds.

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Several fossil birds have been erroneously ascribed to the kingfishers, including Halcyornis, from the Lower Eocene rocks in Kent, which has also been considered a gull, but is now thought to have been a member of an extinct family.
** The genus Ceyx ( within the River kingfishers family ) is named after him
All six New World kingfishers, together with three Old World species, make up the new family Cerylidae.
The motmots or Momotidae are a family of birds in the near passerine order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
The todies are a family, Todidae, of Caribbean birds in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
The Cuckoo Roller or Courol ( Leptosomus discolor ) is the only bird in the family Leptosomatidae, which is usually considered to be within the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
Coracias is a genus of the rollers, an Old World family of near passerine birds related to the kingfishers and bee-eaters.
Cerylidae, or Water Kingfishers, is a family of kingfishers in the order Coraciiformes.

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The Alcedinidae once included all kingfishers, before the widespread recognition of Halcyonidae ( tree-kingfishers ) and Cerylidae ( water-kingfishers ).
He illustrated many important bird books, including Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand ( 1873, 1888 ), William Vincent Legge's History of the Birds of Ceylon ( 1880 ), Daniel Giraud Elliot's Monograph of the Bucerotidae ( hornbills ) ( 1887 – 1892 ), Richard Bowdler Sharpe's Monograph of the Alcedinidae ( kingfishers ) ( 1868 – 1871 ), Henry Seebohm's Monograph of the Turdidae ( thrushes ) ( 1902 ), Osbert Salvin's Biologia Centrali-Americana ( 1879 – 1904 ), Edgar Leopold Layard's Birds of South Africa ( 1887 ) and Henry Eeles Dresser's History of the Birds of Europe ( 1871 – 1896 ), and a single illustration in The Journal of the Linnean Society.

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They share many features with related Coraciiformes such as the kingfishers and rollers, being large-headed ( but not as large-headed as their relatives ) short-necked, brightly plumaged and short-legged.
In south and southeast Asia it can be confused with six other small blue-and-rufous kingfishers, but the rufous ear patches distinguish it from all but juvenile Blue-eared Kingfisher ; details of the head pattern may be necessary to differentiate the two species where both occur.
Aquatic kingfishers have high numbers of red pigments in their oil droplets ; the reason red droplets predominate is not understood, but the droplets may help with the glare or the dispersion of light from particulate matter in the water.
This is largely an Old World order, with the representation in the New World limited to the dozen or so species of todies and motmots, and a mere handful of the more than 90 species of kingfishers.
They can deal with prey without returning to a perch, often swallowing small prey in flight, and so can hunt over large water bodies or in estuaries that lack perches that are required by other kingfishers.
A more recent suggestion is that the Pied Kingfisher and the American green kingfishers are derived from an Old World species, with the Pied Kingfisher or its ancestor losing the metallic colouration afterwards.
The wood hoopoes are related to the kingfishers, the rollers, and the Hoopoe, forming a clade with this last according to Hackett et al.
They have colourful plumage and resemble kingfishers, with green heads, backs and wings, red throats ( absent in immature Puerto Rican, Broad-billed, and Narrow-billed Todies ) with a white and blue-grey stripe on each side, and yellow undertail coverts ; the colour of the rest of the undersides is pale and varies according to species.
Along with lush vegetation, various forms of wildlife can also be seen, including nesting herons, sea lions, kingfishers, and bald eagles.
It proceeds to another pavilion, this time flanked by the Marsh Aviary, with white-collared kingfishers and storks, and a fishing cat exhibit.
Every year approximately 15, 000 Greater Flamingos are reported to visit the lake along with pelicans, kingfishers, herons, painted storks, spoonbills and ducks.
Marine life includes harbour seals, herring gulls, the common tern ( pictars to use the old Scottish word ), the great blue heron ( commonly called " crane " in the Miramichi ), the common loon, and cormorants ( called " black shag " locally ), with kingfishers, plovers, snipe and killdeer along the shore.
The river is well-stocked with trout and visitors to the pub can sometimes see kingfishers that hunt along the river banks, despite the roar of frequent trains overhead on the London line.

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The emblem / badge of Penketh is three kingfishers.

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