Alcyone and Ceyx
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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
Common kingfisher
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The common kingfisher, also known as the Eurasian kingfisher and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa.
Alcyone and Ceyx
…to tell her of her husband's fate. In her grief she threw herself into the sea. Out of compassion, the gods changed them both into "halcyon birds" (common kingfishers), named after her. Apollodorus says that Ceyx was turned into a gannet, and not a kingfisher. Ovid and Hyginus both also recount the metamorphosis of…
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Common kingfisher female
Common kingfisher in flight over Taudaha Lake, Kirtipur, Nepal
Volunteers in the Flemish Region of Belgium create a vertical bank in which common kingfishers have subsequently nested annually