[Narrator] Ah the life of a fish. So serene, so safe from the many predators on land. Well, never mind then. That was a kingfisher. So named because it's good a fishing for kings or something. You'll ...

Despite occurring throughout nearly all of North America, the belted kingfisher is uncommon and solitary. Occupying lakes, rivers, ponds and streams, it uses its stout bill to capture crayfish and ...

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, ...

Recently, while sitting along a quiet stretch of the Eagle River, a rattling “kek-kek-kek” caught my ear. A large darting blue-gray bird flashed by in flight just over the water’s surface, swooped up ...

Nine out of 10 historians agree: Vlad the Impaler was a bad person, largely because there are several less cruel ways to dispatch your enemies. But for a bird called the kingfisher, impalement is a ...