🦉 The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
📚 Alcedo alcedinis, alcyon, or halcedo, halcedinis (lat.) kingfisher; word "hals" in ancient Greek language meant "sea", along with the word thalassa. According to ancient Greek mythology Alcyone (Alcyone), the daughter of the wind god Eol, was the wife of Keix, who drowned due to the wrath of the gods. Alcyone, out of grief, threw herself into the sea, and also died. The gods had mercy and turned the spouses into kingfishers. Looking for her husband, Alcyone calls all the time “Keix! Keix!" and dives, trying to find him in the sea. Alcyone days - two weeks of calm weather around the day winter solstice. During these days, Eol pacified the winds so that Alcyone, in the form of a kingfisher, could hatch chicks in her nest floating on the waves.
📚 atthis (ancient Greek mythology) Attis, a divine youth of extraordinary beauty
I know that this wonderful bird also has alternative and ancient names, such as: blue kingfisher, fishy, ivanok, siberian parrot.
Incredibly beautiful bird, which is very interesting to watch.
Short tail and legs, long beak, plumage shimmering in the sun.
By the way, they should have already arrived. So I'm going to visit them next week. I know where they live every year. This place is located on the outskirts of the city along the river. There is a ravine in which a small stream flows. And in this place a couple of kingfishers live every year.
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So amazing as I have just posted the South African version of this same bird.