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 ...

CHICAGO — Here and there, more and more, the blue and orange bird known as the belted kingfisher is starting to appear outside its normal habitat of lakefronts and riverbanks. It has become widespread ...

Birders across the UK have been trying to spot the elusive belted kingfisher for months, with sightings reported in Chorley’s Withnell Fold Nature Reserve, Samlesbury, the River Ribble and beyond. Now ...

It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot. This spring, students ...

The rattling call of a belted kingfisher in flight is a sound like no other. Often heard before seen, this kingfisher is the only widespread species over much of the continent north of our border with ...

Characteristics: A medium-sized, stocky-looking bird that averages 13 inches in length. Both adults have blue-gray backs and breast bands, a ragged-looking blue crest and face, large head, white neck ...

Slowly, but surely, the coronavirus is turning me into a birder. The COVID-19 pandemic keeps me around home most days, and I find a stroll around the neighborhood’s Tulalip Bay is pretty essential to ...

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, ...

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 ...