Green kingfisher, Chloroceryle americana, adult (upper), juvenile (lower), hand-colored lithograph
Date between 1857 and 1859
Source Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory. (Volume on Birds, edited by Spencer Fullerton Baird.)
Author United States Department of the Interior
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chloroceryle_americanaAQBIP07CA.jpg

The green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) is a species of "water kingfishers" in subfamily Cerylinae of family Alcedinidae. It is found from southern Texas in the United States south through Central America, in every mainland South American country except Chile, and on Trinidad and Tobago. The prey of green kingfisher is mostly small fish but includes crustaceans such as shrimp and also adult and nymph aquatic and terrestrial insects.

Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Alcedinidae
Subfamily: Cerylinae
Genus: Chloroceryle
Species: Chloroceryle americana (Gmelin, JF, 1788)