#kingfishers

I finished my kingfisher illustration! probably one of the most colourful pieces I've drawn in my life 🩵🌈

featuring the following species: ruddy kingfisher, buff-breasted paradise kingfisher, green kingfisher, belted kingfisher, stork-billed kingfisher, little kingfisher, common kingfisher, grey-headed kingfisher, banded kingfisher, white-throated kingfisher, kookaburra, woodland kingfisher, pied kingfisher and oriental dwarf kingfisher

Simplified bird #161 - forest kingfisher

A belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) in front of the Beaver Supermoon in Orlando Wetlands Park, Florida, USA

From the original FB post by the Cincinnati Zoo:

Guam kingfishers, known as Sihek in Guam, became extinct in the wild after the brown treesnake was accidentally introduced to their native island in the 1940s. A small group of these birds was saved and sent to a handful of Zoos before they completely disappeared from Guam in the 1980s. Cincinnati Zoo was one of the Zoos that received Sihek, and we’ve been working with the other organizations to produce eggs/chicks in order to ultimately reintroduce the species to Guam (first step is to establish a population on Palmyra Atoll). Fast forward 40 years…there are eggs in the wild!!!! Details below, but the spoiler alert is that three of the nine chicks sent to an island in the Pacific with the goal to pair up and lay eggs are from Cincinnati Zoo!!! The first eggs laid in the wild in 40 years are from one of those birds, Tutuhan.

Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon