- Bird with brilliant blue green plumage - Bright bluish bird - Flyer featuring royal angler - Any one of numerous species of birds constituting the
family Alcedinidae. Most of them feed upon fishes which they capture by
diving and seizing then with the beak; others feed only upon reptiles,
insects, etc. About one hundred and fifty species are known. They are
found in nearly all parts of the world, but are particularly abundant
in the East Indies.
- bird with bright plumage - diamond bird - Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of
the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with
yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O.
oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note. - In America, any one of several species of the genus
Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and
Orchard oriole, under Orchard.