Here and there, more and more, the blue and orange bird known as the belted kingfisher is starting to appear outside its normal habitat of lakefronts and riverbanks. It has become widespread around ...

Our belted kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon, is the only one of the family found in the United States and Canada. The ringed and the green kingfishers may be observed in our southwest having come across ...

It was a typical San Diego late fall afternoon at Oceanside Harbor, with mild temperatures and a setting sun that warmed a clear blue sky. Seals were feeding in the calm waters of the harbor, and I ...

It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot. This spring, students ...

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 ...

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign students start voting on a new school mascot Wednesday. The two-day, non-binding vote will gauge whether to make the belted kingfisher the new mascot. It's a ...

Slowly, but surely, the coronavirus is turning me into a birder. The COVID-19 pandemic keeps me around home most days, and I find a stroll around the neighborhood’s Tulalip Bay is pretty essential to ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Here and there, more and more, the blue and orange bird known as the belted kingfisher is starting to appear outside its normal habitat of lakefronts and riverbanks. It has become widespread ...

My wife Laurie and I were recently escorted along the Black River Oxbow by a male Belted Kingfisher. As we paddled our tandem kayak quietly through the still water, he zig-zagged ahead of us ...