Belted kingfishers have long, heavy, dagger-like black beaks. I watched a kingfisher dive underwater and fly back onto a piling with a fish not held in its beak, but impaled on it. I’ve seen ...

A rattling call, a spiky head-crest, and a habit of diving head first into water: belted kingfishers, now arriving in Orange County, seem to exude charisma. These large-billed birds begin to show ...

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Some species of kingfisher hunt for fish by diving head-first into the water as quickly as 25 miles per hour. Riccardo Trevisani / 500px via Getty Images Some agile birds known as kingfishers can ...

Claim to fame: Belted kingfishers are conspicuous to birders and non-birders alike because of their crested head and because of their method of diving into the water after fish. In birding circles ...

Before a dive into the Illinois mascot/logo debate and an argument the belted kingfisher IS a good option, it’s worth pointing out that very few people’s sports rooting interest has anything ...

for they were often observed diving through thin ice or holes in ice to capture prey. The belted kingfisher mates for life, but essentially they are solitary creatures. Occasionally I see two together ...

Sometimes belted kingfishers skim the surface to pick up a bug, but most times they dive into the water head ... One naturalist witnessed a kingfisher swim three to four feet under the water ...

And that’s when she found it. “The female Belted Kingfisher, as we like to say, is naturally true to the orange and blue,” Sanborn said. “She’s got those beautiful blue feathers around ...

For starters, the belted kingfisher sports school colors ... don’t care what people think,’ but I care greatly,” Hulsey said. If her designs take a dive with the student body like a kingfisher on the ...