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belted kingfisher

noun

Definitions

  1. Megaceryle alcyon, a North American species of kingfisher.

    • The jaunty wood-duck smiled and bowed; The belted kingfisher laughed aloud,
    • It is called a belted kingfisher because of the blue-gray band across the breast of the male, with an additional reddish band below the blue-gray one on females.

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