Kingfisher
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a small, brilliantly coloured bird with a blue-green back and orange chest that dives for fish in rivers and lakes. In Indian poetry the kingfisher's speed across water is used as an image for things that are beautiful precisely because they cannot be held.
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"a small, brilliantly coloured bird with a blue-green back and orange chest that dives for fish in rivers and lakes. In Indian poetry the kingfisher's speed across water is used as an image for things that are beautiful precisely because they cannot be held."
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