[edit] River kingfishers
Order: Coraciiformes Family: Alcedinidae
Half-collared Kingfisher Alcedo semitorquata
Malachite Kingfisher Alcedo cristata
African Pygmy-Kingfisher Ispidina picta ...
River Kingfishers
Order Coraciiformes Family Alcedinidae
The river kingfishers are one of the three families of bird in the kingfisher group.
The group is treated either as a single family, Alcedinidae, or as a suborder Alcedines containing three families, Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers).
Kingfishers are birds of the three tismand Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), and Cerylidae (water kingfishers). There are about 90 species of kingfisher.
The Common Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis, also known as Eurasian Kingfisher or River Kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa.
There are three main types of kingfisher around the globe which are the river kingfishers, the tree kingfishers and the water kingfishers all of which have large heads, long sharp pointed bills, short legs, and stubby tails.
 See also: Kingfish, Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Burro, Sparrow
  
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