Kingfisher
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Kingfishers are a family, the Alcedinidae, of small to medium-sized, brightly coloured birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution: most species live in the tropical region
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The paradise kingfishers of New Guinea have unusually long tails for the group.
The kookaburra has a call which sounds like laughter.
Like many forest-living kingfishers, the yellow-billed kingfisher often nests in arboreal termite nests.
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.
Kingfisher
…termite nests. A few species, principally insular forms, are threatened with extinction. In Britain, the word "kingfisher" normally refers to the common kingfisher. The kingfisher family Alcedinidae is in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the motmots, bee-eaters, todies, rollers, and ground-rollers. The…
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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