A flash of electric blue—that's as intimately as most people will ever know the common kingfisher ... The yellow, red, orange, and brown birds of the world assume their hues because of a ...

Both males and females are blue-gray with bright white bellies ... The ringed kingfisher looks like an oversize belted kingfisher with a rich chestnut brown belly. The green kingfisher is a ...

and cinnamon-orange and metallic blue feathers. The Guam kingfisher began facing a major decline in the 1950s after the introduction of the invasive brown tree snake. By 1988, it was extinct from ...