Halcyon (genus)
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Halcyon is a genus of the tree kingfishers, near passerine birds in the subfamily Halcyoninae.
Woodland Kingfisher South Africa
Ruddy Kingfisher
Halcyon smyrnensis Singapore Botanic Gardens
Brown breasted Kingfisher, Los Banos, Philippines 1
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.
Halcyon (genus)
…introduced by the English naturalist and artist William Swainson in 1821. He named the type species as the woodland kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis). "Halcyon" is a name for a bird in Greek legend generally associated with the kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the bird nested on the sea, which it…
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