A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.
silver gemfish, Rexea solandri (Australia)
yellowtail amberjack, Seriola lalandi (Australia, New Zealand)
white croaker, Genyonemus lineatus (United Kingdom)
crevalle jack, Caranx hippos (Mauritania)
king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla
The cobia, Rachycentron canadum, of warm waters globally.
Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroaker
opah, Lampris guttatus (United Kingdom)
giant trevally (sometimes travelli) Caranx ignobilis (South Africa)
narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson (Australia)
wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri (Barbados)
Japanese meagre, Argyrosomus japonicus (Australia)