Water kingfisher

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Coraciiformes
Family:Cerylidae

The water kingfishers or Cerylidae are one of the three families of kingfishers, and are also known as the cerylid kingfishers.

These are all specialist fish-eating species, unlike many representatives of the other two families, and it is likely that they are all descended from fish-eating kingfishers which founded populations in the New World.

There are 9 water kingfisher species .........................