belted kingfisher en · NOUN
Meanings
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Megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.
The jaunty wood-duck smiled and bowed; The belted kingfisher laughed aloud,
1883, Maurice Thompson, “The Death of the White Heron”, in Songs of Fair Weather:It is called a belted kingfisher because of the blue-gray band across the breast of the male, with an additional reddish band below the blue-gray one on females.
1999, George Wilby Scotter, Edgar T. Jones, Tom J. Ulrich, Birds of the Canadian Rockies, Fifth House Publishers, page 82:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| belted kingfishers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
nci achalalahtli (Translations) · pqm kaskumonoss (Translations) · squ tsʼchel (Translations) · tfn chikʼdghesh (Translations) · tfn łiqʼa qeshqa (Translations) · ik nukuutchiqiq (Translations) · taa ch'etthich'eghwsr (Translations) · atj okickamanisiw (Translations) · tfn łiqʼa ten nuqughuni (Translations) · aht tacʼilʼ (Translations)