The idea came to Spencer Hulsey in a doodle. During a physics discussion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she idly sketched a belted kingfisher, a blue and orange bird she saw many ...

Belted kingfishers are busy birds. They spend a good part of their day pursuing food. Small fish, dragonfly larvae and water bugs are fair game for these year-round residents of Central Florida. I’ve ...

It was a typical San Diego late fall afternoon at Oceanside Harbor, with mild temperatures and a setting sun that warmed a clear blue sky. Seals were feeding in the calm waters of the harbor, and I ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- It's Thursday and you know that means Bird of the Week; however this month, we're adding a bit of trivia with it. This week, we're looking at the Belted Kingfisher. The ...

One morning, as I am walking down the hill toward the marshy area on my road listening to the wonderful, behind-the-scenes chorus of the resident warblers — chestnut-sided, redstart, yellow, ...

There's a bird of mythic fame in our midst. It's a symbol of peace, and it wards off bad weather. The bird in question? The Belted Kingfisher. Of our winter birds, the Kingfisher one of the most ...

I stopped at the Johns Homestead Park near Tucker last week to see what was stirring. Right off, I spotted a dark blue, medium-size bird perched on a low limb at the edge of Twin Brothers Lake, ...

Birdwatchers have been flocking to a Lancashire nature reserved in recent weeks, hoping to catch a glimpse of a rare bird that has only been seen a handful of times in the UK in the last 100 years. A ...

In 50 years of careful looking I've found two Belted Kingfisher nests. That is testimony to the general difficulty of locating one or to my specific problem. Whatever. I found one Saturday, three ...