The rattling call of a belted kingfisher in flight is a sound like no other. Often heard before seen, this kingfisher is the only widespread species over much of the continent north of our border with ...

One morning, as I am walking down the hill toward the marshy area on my road listening to the wonderful, behind-the-scenes chorus of the resident warblers — chestnut-sided, redstart, yellow, ...

It was a typical San Diego late fall afternoon at Oceanside Harbor, with mild temperatures and a setting sun that warmed a clear blue sky. Seals were feeding in the calm waters of the harbor, and I ...

Here and there, more and more, the blue and orange bird known as the belted kingfisher is starting to appear outside its normal habitat of lakefronts and riverbanks. It has become widespread around ...

Slowly, but surely, the coronavirus is turning me into a birder. The COVID-19 pandemic keeps me around home most days, and I find a stroll around the neighborhood’s Tulalip Bay is pretty essential to ...

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

CHICAGO — Here and there, more and more, the blue and orange bird known as the belted kingfisher is starting to appear outside its normal habitat of lakefronts and riverbanks. It has become widespread ...

My wife Laurie and I were recently escorted along the Black River Oxbow by a male Belted Kingfisher. As we paddled our tandem kayak quietly through the still water, he zig-zagged ahead of us ...

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign students start voting on a new school mascot Wednesday. The two-day, non-binding vote will gauge whether to make the belted kingfisher the new mascot. It's a ...

It’s been three years since students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign passed a campuswide proposal for a bird called the kingfisher to be the new school mascot. This spring, students ...