Bibliography : Kingfisher
| W. Geoffrey Arnott | Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z |
| John Ashton | Curious Creatures in Zoology |
| Thomas Brown; James Eason, ed. | Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into very many Received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths |
| Gerald K. Gresseth | The Myth of Alcyone |
| Paul W. Kroll | The Image of the Halcyon Kingfisher in Medieval Chinese Poetry |