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🦉 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

As I have repeatedly said, one family of kingfishers lives in a ravine near the river and every year they have offspring. And when their children grow up, they move to one place, which serves as a kind of training ground for them. This is the place where a small fast river flows into a large city river.

This is the place where parents teach their children how to fish properly. And it happens like this: teenagers sit in the bushes on the shore, and parents sit on some comfortable perches in the form of fallen branches, or buckets or seats left over from the fishermen and look out for fish. And when they see prey, they dive for it.