Common Kingfisher Gallery

Common kingfisher, Alcedo ispida, Alcedo atthis

Common kingfisher, Alcedo ispida, Alcedo atthis. . Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821. Graves was a bookseller, publisher, artist, engraver and colorist and worked on botanical and ornithological books

© Florilegius / Mary Evans

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Wildlife of New Guinea, chromolithograph, published in 1895

Wildlife of New Guinea: 1) Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae); 2) Bennett's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus); 3) Palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus); 4) Western crowned pigeon (Goura cristata); 5) Northern cassowary - chick (Casuarius unappendiculatus); 6) Common paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea); 7) Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise (Seleucidis melanoleucus); 8) Raggiana Bird-of-paradise, (Paradisaea raggiana); 9) Blue bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi); 10) King bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius, male); 11) Black Sicklebill (Epimachus speciosus); 12) Western parotia (Parotia sefilata). Chromolithograph, published in 1895

Common Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis

Vintage lithograph from 1883 of a 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

© Duncan Walker

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