kingfisher in English

noun
1
an often brightly colored bird with a large head and long sharp beak, typically diving for fish from a perch. Many of the tropical kinds live in forests and feed on terrestrial prey such as insects and lizards.
There were more stretches through wilderness and spotting shoals of fish, cormorants, cranes, owls, spoonbills, kingfishers , woodpeckers, and a few snakes.

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1. Top feathers used for kingfisher craft are the turquoise blue and the snowy blue kingfisher feathers.

2. Kingfisher, is a nice beer too.

3. Kingfisher, Belted -Ceryle alcyon (Linnaeus)

4. Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry.

5. Bryony And Roses - Kindle edition by Kingfisher, T.

6. Kingfisher launched a hostile bid for Dixons.

7. Imagine watching a kingfisher Arrowing towards a lake surface

8. As in Kingfisher First, passengers could access movies, English and Hindi TV programmes, a few live TV channels powered by DishTV, and Kingfisher Radio.

9. Imagine watching a kingfisher Arrowing towards a lake surface

10. Aren't you the one from the Kingfisher CIub Iast night?

11. A kingfisher flashed across the water, the fish vanished, leaving the duckweed.

12. Alope was seduced by Poseidon who took the form of a kingfisher

13. Kingfisher and Jet Airways aircrafts will then fly out the Indian nationals from Valetta.

14. As a late crop, it was still kingfisher green, and still full of life.

15. A large kingfisher ( Dacelo gigas ) native to Australia, with a call that resembles raucous laughter.

16. In lieu of real out-of-town travel,[sentencedict .com] Kingfisher fills the bill nicely.

17. But the stores group, Kingfisher shone out like a beacon in the dull market.

18. Aquacade’s tracks Kingfisher and Calista by Aquacade published on 2018-11-19T20:00:06Z

19. He wondered how the kingfisher adapts so quickly from low-resistance air to high-resistance water.

20. Kingfisher confirmed that it hopes to tie up a deal within the next two weeks.

21. The CANT Z.1007 Alcione (Kingfisher) was an Italian three-engined medium bomber, with wooden structure.

22. Although it is a "kingfisher", it prefers drier habitats in more traditional woodland and can be far from water.

23. They were more elegantly dressed, the kingfisher blue of their jackets matching the colour of the big sky overhead.

24. Who does not thrill to see the darting flash of color of a hummingbird or a kingfisher?

25. With the loss of the fish, we can expect to lose the electric-blue flash of the kingfisher.

26. There is no suggestion that people directly involved with Kingfisher profited from knowing that a bid was imminent.

27. And he is currently working on a kingfisher which he estimates will take him 12 months to complete.

28. If it is true, then Kingfisher should not be afraid of arguing its case in front of the Monopolies Commission.

29. Kingfisher Coloured Mortar for Pointing is available in a range of colours, including Dark Grey, Heritage, Light Grey and Sandstone

30. The flagship brand, Kingfisher, is now sold in over 52 countries worldwide, having received many accolades for its quality.

31. Kingfisher was forced to show its hand after rumours that a bid was in the offing began to circulate on Tuesday.

32. 15 Best of all, a kingfisher, black against the red sun, alighted on a post at the far end.

33. Poseidon, in the guise of a kingfisher, seduced Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, and from the union she gave birth to Hippothoon

34. We would like to express our gratitude to members and volunteers who offered help to this event, including the 3 Night Heron and the Common Kingfisher.

35. With its top-heavy physique, energetic flight, and piercing rattle, the Belted Kingfisher seems to have an air of self-importance as it patrols up and down rivers and shorelines

36. We investigated whether and how the shoaling behaviour of parasitized killifish is altered in ways that may facilitate transmission of the parasite to its final host, the belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon).

37. Anomaliped, anomalipod (s)(noun); Anomalipeds, anomalipods (pl) One of a group of perching birds that have the middle toe, more or less, united to the outer and inner toes: One example of an Anomalipedbird is the kingfisher.

38. Every seat was equipped with a personalised IFE system with AVOD which offered a wide range of Hollywood and Bollywood movies, English and Hindi TV programmes, 16 live TV channels and 10 channels of Kingfisher Radio.

39. ‘The kingfisher came Arrowing along the shoreline, saw the heron, and made a screeching halt in midair.’ ‘With the ball Arrowing towards the top corner, Dudek gets a finger-tip to it.’ ‘And once again his shot was true, Arrowing past the despairing McKenzie.’

40. Commonly written hAlcyon.; noun [capitalized] A genus of kingfishers: same as HAlcyon, 2.; noun The specific name of the belted kingfisher of North America, Ceryle Alcyon.; noun A general name of the kingfishers of the genus HAlcyon and others of the subfamily Daceloninæ: as, the wood-Alcyons, tree-Alcyons, etc.

41. The Birddom is also very rich in this park you can see species like vultures, warblers, wood shrikes, white-browed fantail, white-breasted kingfisher, white-eyed buzzard, Tickell’s blue flycatcher, steppe eagle, red-wattled lapwing, red junglefowl, Indian peafowl, mynas, paradise, flycatchers, pigeons, woodpeckers, Malabar pied hornbill

42. The following marine and coastal bird species have been identified as being in the study area: − − − − − − − − − − − − American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) American Widgeon (Anas americana) Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Piping Plover (Chardrius melodus) Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia) Transportation and Navigation: − − − − Cocagne River ESA