Attempts at the perfect Belted Kingfisher photo continue, these taken by Erika and me on 1 January 2022 at the Nisqually national wildlife refuge. The 118 species of kingfishers found around the globe show a lot of diversity, from sparrow-sized to crow-sized birds. Not all eat fish. Ornithologists don’t doubt that kingfishers are classified in the Order Coraciiformes. Kingfishers are, therefore, close relatives to rollers and bee-eaters in the Old World, and todies and motmots in our hemisphere. (I think the name Coraciiformes is derived from the Greek word for rollers.) Almost all the kingfishers in the United States and Canada are a single species. A few tropical kingfishers stray to our southern border.
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