How to Use kingfisher in a Sentence

kingfisher

noun

• Not all kingfishers feast on fish—some eat bugs, lizards and even other birds.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• Each of its 21 rooms is named after a bird found near the estuary, such as kingfisher or heron.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• Gliding across the water as the sun came up and the shorebirds — kingfishers, sandpipers, herons, egrets — sprang to life was a heavenly treat.
  — Susan Maas / Special To The Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2017
• Kingfishers give fish to their mates, while the great gray shrike, native to most northern climes, is more dramatic.
  — National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2016
• Sparrows, bluebirds and a fly-by kingfisher get their portions, as do a pair of chipmunks at warp speed.
  — Allan Ripp, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2020
• But the feathers of the bluebird, the kingfisher and other birds are colored blue due to the dispersion of the light striking minute air cells in the horny structure of the feathers.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Alligators may lounge on the shoreline and dozens of birds pass by from kingfishers to osprey.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• But very little is known about most of them, including the South Philippine dwarf kingfisher.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• The pools beavers make are too shallow for diving predators like mergansers and kingfishers and bigger fish.
  — Starre Vartan, National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2019
• Soon his prize appeared: a fledgling South Philippine dwarf kingfisher, about three weeks old.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• Dozens of other bird species call the park home year round, including night herons, great white egrets, kingfishers and the delta’s year-round resident flock of greater flamingos.
  — Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
• A kingfisher flew over the shallows, and out in the center of the pond, a loon and a chick were snorkeling — scanning with their heads underwater — and diving for fish.
  — Murray Carpenter, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016
• White cockatoos sailed among the branches, kingfishers flitted along the shore, and an osprey turned on high currents.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 May 2020
• Koan is a laughing kookaburra, native to eastern Australia and the largest type of kingfisher.
  — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2021
• Sibley’s kingfisher, perched in a posture of expectation on a branch, reminded me of a child waiting for a school bus.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2020
• Some attractions are a snapping turtle that likes to sun itself on a log, a variety of fish in the lake and such fish-eating birds as herons, kingfishers and mergansers.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• In a photo by Vince Burton, a common kingfisher with a tubby belly hurls a fish into the air, waiting below with its beak open.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 5 Sep. 2017
• Another local artist, Howard Connelly, crafted a metal bird sculpture to place on top of the phone stand, and the phone was then ready for users to call up the sounds of wood ducks, kingfishers and mourning doves.
  — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• Birds include plain chachalacas, ringed kingfishers and green jays, and rarities such as blue buntings and roadside hawks.
  — Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• There were the usual citizens of kingfishers, turtles, limpkins, herons, big fish and others.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 June 2018
• Given that the birds number only 140 or so worldwide, every kingfisher counts.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 1 June 2018
• One photo circulating on the internet showed a kingfisher drenched in black oil.
  — Author: Iliana Magra, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
• Back in 2005, the engineers who designed Japan's famous bullet trains adapted their design based on kingfisher beaks.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
• Nakatsu had at one point observed the natural and graceful entry of a kingfisher diving into water without a splash at high speeds.
  — Ajay Jotwani, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Using their exacting sense of smell, minks prey on small animals—including salmon, moorhens, kingfishers and frogs.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• Sky is nothing and everything: a blank that holds solar systems, locust swarms, heaven’s gates, kingfishers, and cosmos.
  — Gretel Ehrlich, The Atlantic, 2 May 2020
• Easier is the lone white-throated kingfisher, with his brilliant blue feathers and long red bill, sitting staidly on the electricity wires.
  — Hazlitt, 13 Dec. 2023
• Other favorites: Paintings that incorporate critters among leaves and branches, such as a kingfisher on a willow branch ($1,500).
  — Linda Jerkins, ajc, 1 Apr. 2017
• Kookaburras, which are large terrestrial tree kingfishers, are voracious predators of small birds, such as fairy wrens.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Trails offer visitors passage into forests of sabal palms and live oaks draped in Spanish moss, ponds busy with herons, kingfishers and waterfowl, and riparian wetlands skirting the banks of the Rio Grande.
  — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 15 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024