Some that moult late may suspend their moult during cold winter weather. Feathers are moulted gradually between July and November with the main flight feathers taking 90–100 days to moult and regrow. Its bill is black, and the legs are also initially black. The juvenile is similar to the adult, but with duller and greener upperparts and paler underparts. The female is identical in appearance to the male except that her lower mandible is orange-red with a black tip. It has a green-blue neck stripe, white neck blaze and throat, rufous underparts, and a black bill with some red at the base. ispida has green-blue upperparts with pale azure-blue back and rump, a rufous patch by the bill base, and a rufous ear-patch. The adult male of the western European subspecies, A. This species has the typical short-tailed, dumpy-bodied, large-headed, and long-billed kingfisher shape. The common kingfisher's closest relative is the cerulean kingfisher that has white underparts and is found in parts of Indonesia. The genus Alcedo comprises seven small kingfishers that all eat fish as part of their diet. The modern binomial name derives from the Latin alcedo, 'kingfisher' (from Greek ἀλκυών, halcyon), and Atthis, a beautiful young woman of Lesbos, and favourite of Sappho. The common kingfisher was first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Gracula atthis. The glossy white eggs are laid in a nest at the end of a burrow in a riverbank. It feeds mainly on fish, caught by diving, and has special visual adaptations to enable it to see prey under water. This sparrow-sized bird has the typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile it has blue upperparts, orange underparts and a long bill. It is resident in much of its range, but migrates from areas where rivers freeze in winter. The common kingfisher ( Alcedo atthis), also known as the Eurasian kingfisher and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa. The common kingfisher hunting in Italy's Po River

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