This spring, students started creating the kingfisher costume. Former student Spencer Wilken first sketched a belted kingfisher ... with Wilken’s guidance, drew up the designs.

More often, however, it’s the machine gun-like rattle of a belted kingfisher ... then pulls up and hovers about 20 feet above the water. For several seconds, the bird beats its wings furiously ...

“She’s got those beautiful blue feathers around her wings and then that nice ... to decide if 2025 is the year of the Belted Kingfisher. You can keep up with the bird on Instagram.

The years roll on and I discover the belted kingfisher has cousins galore ... glides over the water, folds its wings and plunges into the water only to appear rising up through the surface with a fish ...

Starting Wednesday, students at the University can determine if her mascot idea has any air beneath its wings. On Wednesday and Thursday, students will vote their preference on the belted kingfisher .

Belted kingfishers have ... kingfishers spit up a pellet. Like owl pellets, these undigested parts contain scales and bones of prey. A kingfisher's diet includes aquatic insects, frogs, tadpoles ...

Kingfishers like to stake out a specific territory, so finding one involves staking out my own spot and waiting for one to show up. The belted kingfisher ... their long wings make them quick ...

This spring, students started creating the kingfisher costume. Former student Spencer Wilken first sketched a belted kingfisher ... with Wilken’s guidance, drew up the designs.

This spring, students started creating the kingfisher costume. Former student Spencer Wilken first sketched a belted kingfisher as a senior at the university. She drew the bird idly during class ...