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This particular medieval kingfisher is surprising in that it actually looks like a kingfisher as we know it, even to the colours. It is from the Alphonso Psalter, dated to 1284. #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #kingfisher #kingfishers

A blue-headed kingfisher with a raised orange-brown beak looking to the left. It has an orange-brown belly, folded greenish wings and a blue back and tail. It is surprisingly realistic and detailed even to the facial stripe of a pale fawn. Image from British Library, Additional MS 24686 (Alphonso Psalter), folio 11r.

This delightfully cross-looking medieval kingfisher giving the viewer the side-eye as it stomps across the page is from Ann Walsh's Bestiary (dated 1400-1425) which is known for its whimsical drawings. #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #kingfisher #kingfishers

Between text on a manuscript page, a brown-winged blue bird with a firmly closed, long hooked brown beak is stomping across the page towards the right on large brown webbed feet. It appears to be giving the viewer the side-eye and appears to be scowling. It is unclear if it is walking on a shore or on the blue waves of the background. It is oddly rounded and short. Image from Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 1633 4° (Bestiary of Ann Walsh), folio 36v.

It looks more like a pelican to me. #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #kingfisher #kingfishers

This week's medieval beast is the kingfisher which may (or may not) be the same as the modern bird of the same name. It is commonly shown reaching back to its own tail feathers as in this image from the Aberdeen Bestiary (c1200). #medievalbeasts #medievalmanuscripts #kingfisher #kingfishers

A large, rather thin, bird with detailed feathers with a long neck reaching back over its raised wings to its tail feathers. It is blue white colour and has a long curved teethed orange-brown beak. It has large webbed orange-brown feet. It is shown in a red and blue ring on a gilt background in a red and white frame. Image from Aberdeen University Library, Univ. Lib. MS 24 (Aberdeen Bestiary), folio 54v.

2016-10-17 Fahrradtour / Bicycle Trip
#Tierfotografie -> https://archive.org/details/108733
Schwafheimer Meer -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/501447
& Streichelzoo im Freizeitpark Moers -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/545125

#vögel #zwergtaucher #blaumeisen #eisvögel #spatzen #natur #SchwafheimerMeer #niederrhein #slideshow #SchwafheimerMeer #digital #animals #birds #LittleGrebe #BlueTits #kingfishers #sparrows #nature #LowerRhineRegion #video #foto #fotografie #photo #photography #slide #tiere #moers

New addition! 🌏 Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) #AsianBirds | #StorkBilledKingfisher #PelargopsisCapensis | #Kingfishers #TreeKingfishers #KingfisherFamily #Coraciiformes 📷: Photo by josibo🦉 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds ❤️🦜

🌏 Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis)

The Stork-billed Kingfisher is a very large kingfisher with a massive, bright red bill, green back, blue wings/tail, and a brown head with orange-buff neck and underparts. It is distributed across the tropical Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, preferring well-wooded habitats near water (rivers, lakes, coasts). It is a sedentary, sit-and-wait predator, perching quietly to hunt fish, crabs, frogs, rodents, and young birds. It is also highly territorial. Thirteen subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Fun fact: During courtship, the male may perform a display called "Sky-pointing," where it holds its body vertically with its huge bill pointed straight up to the heavens.

📷: Photo by josibo via Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/photos/bird-kingfisher-ornithology-species-6814909/

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Today's @robcrank68.bsky.social #birdoftheday theme is "Any Bird with 3 or More Colours". Picked these at random... 😇 Forest kingfisher (incinctus), Azure kingfisher, Sacred kingfisher, Blue-winged kookaburra (excuse the photobombing friarbird) #photography #birds #kingfishers #gift #EastCoastKin

Blue-winged kookaburra, close relative to the more common laughing jackass, under attack by a little friarbird (the kooka won). Note the nictitating membrane closed over its eye as an instinctive reaction.

Это аистоклювый зимородок(аистоклювый гуриал)/stork-billed kingfisher/Pelargopsis capensis - второй их трех видов зимородков, встреченных во время ночной прогулки.

13.07.2025
Kinabatangan river, Borneo, Malaysia

#malaysia #borneo #bird #birds #birdphotography #фотоохота #nature #naturephoto #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlifephoto #wildlife #kingfishers #kingfisher #kingfisherbird #kalimantan #kinabatanganriver #kinabatangan #kinabatanganwetlandsresort #sabah

My mistake, I should have given up on #Abercrombie and his repulsively crude, sloppily told #TheDevils earlier! #TheHandmaidsTale is oppressively fantastic but only in homeopathic doses. By chance I stumbled across #Kingfisher's #Nettle&Bone, so far wonderful fairytale-like, dark #fantasy. #booksky

Впервые удалось сделать более-менее нормальные фотографии зимородка. Это парочка синеухих зимородков/blue-eared kingfisher/Alcedo meninting. Самочка сверху - ее можно отличить по красному клюву. На одном фото на груди самца сидело насекомое.

13.07.2025
Kinabatangan river, Borneo, Malaysia

#malaysia #borneo #bird #birds #birdphotography #фотоохота #nature #naturephoto #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlifephoto #wildlife #kingfishers #kingfisher #kalimantan #kinabatangan

I usually hear Kingfishers before I see them. I wouldn't have thought that loudly announcing that you're looking for food would be a good hunting strategy, but it seems to work for them.

#Kingfisher #Kingfishers #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #explorebc #canada #birdingbc #vogel