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, ...

The idea came to Spencer Hulsey in a doodle. During a physics discussion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she idly sketched a belted kingfisher, a blue and orange bird she saw many ...

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 ...

Like the now-dry pond named after it near the San Pedro River, the green kingfisher, once a popular attraction for birdwatchers there, is not doing well in Southern Arizona. Our region is one of only ...

Disney has a role in the attempt to get an almost-extinct species of bird called the Guam kingfisher back home and back on its feet. Its journey could sound like an animated Disney film: A bird – ...

Photographer’s description: “Last summer, I photographed kingfisher parents feeding their almost-full-grown young at the pond on the north end of Golden Gardens. This week, I returned to the pond when ...

Senior columnist Maggie Knutte and columnist Grayson Hodson share opposing perspectives on replacing the mascot for the Illini. Knutte argues in favor of a replacement with the belted kingfisher, ...

A wildlife photographer managed to capture charming images showing a kingfisher feeding near a south Somerset reservoir last week.

Nestled in between an industrially ravaged section of the Lemon Creek valley and the police station is a small gem of wildlife habitat. Known as Kingfisher Pond, in the early 2000s it was reclaimed ...