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 ...

Kingfishers live in a hole in the ground. Technically, they nest at the end of a long burrow scraped into the face of a steep earthen bank of some kind, a ditch, a shoreline, a sand pit, a dirt pile, ...

Some birds are secretive. Others are deliberately conspicuous. Kingfishers fall into the latter category. Their rattling calls reverberate along waterways during the breeding season from early spring ...

The Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher or the Ceylon Blue Kingfisher is a very stunning and colorful bird that can be found living in the thick, green rainforests of southwest India. Since it has such bright ...

A belted kingfisher is making the rounds as a potential mascot for the University. “These birds are orange and blue, literally. That’s perfect,” said designer Spencer Hulsey, senior in LAS. Growing up ...

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, ...

The Guam kingfisher, or Sihek in CHamoru, is an iconic species of Guam, but can no longer be found there. Pictured here are Hinanao and his mate, Tutuhan, who came from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical ...

Like the now-dry pond named after it near the San Pedro River, the green kingfisher, once a popular attraction for birdwatchers there, is not doing well in Southern Arizona. Our region is one of only ...