Alcedo

Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata protonym, Alcedo pileata, also known as the Miyako kingfisher, photographed at Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata 2011

Moved to ultralight about 40 yrs ago using clear 2# Garcia Platyl line on an Alcedo Micron.

What pond test line do you use for trout? Is it Monofilament, fluorocarbon, or braid? 2009

Moved to ultralight about 40 yrs ago using clear 2# Garcia Platyl line on an Alcedo Micron.

What pond test line do you use for trout? Is it Monofilament, fluorocarbon, or braid? 2009

Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata protonym, Alcedo pileata, also known as the Miyako kingfisher, photographed at Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata 2011

The Madagascar kingfisher (Alcedo vintsioides) is also believed to occur in the mangroves.

Madagascar mangroves 2008

Two writers, Coleti and Alcedo, who almost two centuries later mentioned the same epitaph as marking the grave in Santo Domingo, must have copied from Castellanos.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

Observed the large blue Kingfisher of the Tenasserim coast, _Alcedo_

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

The habits of the black and white kingfisher, Alcedo rudis, are different from those of the other Indian species: it never perches, choosing rather the ground to rest upon: it builds in banks: takes its prey by striking it from a height of 20 feet or thereabouts, previously fluttering or hovering over it.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Alcedo says that this river is navigable for ships of large size; but others add, that during the dry season, when the river is low, in one or two places the navigation is obstructed by sand banks, which, however, could easily be removed by a deepening machine, such as that used for a similar purpose on the Clyde.

A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen

No stronger proof of this need be asked than that which Alcedo gives in connection with the proposal by Gogueneche, the Biscayan pilot, to open communication by the Atrato and the Napipi.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various