Female Belted Kingfisher. I half wondered if the binomial Megaceryle alcyon had anything to do with big hair…. The genus name is from the Greek for “great sea bird,” or a king fisher, if you will. The specific epithet is from a Greek myth: Alcyon mourned so for her drowned husband that the gods turned them both into kingfishers. (The Common Kingfisher you’ll find in Greece is Alcedo atthis.) 
Portrait of a Kingfisher
2 responses to “Portrait of a Kingfisher”
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forgive an ignorant non-birding bird admirer, but, “Sheena is a Punk Rocker”
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Well, the kids are all hopped up and ready to go, they’re ready to go now
They got their surfboards and they’re going to the discotheque A-Go-Go
But she just couldn’t stay, she had to break away
Well New York City really has it all, oh yeah, oh yeah
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Backyard and Beyond 
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