In Greek mythology, Alcyone and Ceyx were a wife and husband who incurred the wrath of the god Zeus for their romantic hubris.
Alcyone and Ceyx transformed into Halcyons
Herbert James Draper, Halcyone, 1915.
Alcyone praying Juno, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 573-582
Ceyx in the tempest, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 410-572
Halcyon is a genus of the tree kingfishers, near passerine birds in the subfamily Halcyoninae.
Halcyon (genus)
Image: Ruddy Kingfisher
Image: Halcyon smyrnensis Singapore Botanic Gardens
Image: Brown breasted Kingfisher, Los Banos, Philippines 1