David Attenborough的書The Life of Birds第118-120頁對kingfisher有以下描述:
The bird (African pygmy kingfisher) lives, not on a river bank but in the rainforest and it catches not small fish but insects. In fact this is more typical of kingfishers as a group, for some tow-thirds of the family live away from water. In Australia, they grow large and take land-living prey of some considerable size-the kookaburra captures lizards and snakes.