Megaceryle is a genus of very large water kingfishers in the Alcedinidae family. Megaceryle is from the Ancient Greek megas, "great", and the existing genus Ceryle. All are specialist fish-eaters with prominent stiff crests on their heads. They have dark grey or bluish-grey upperparts, largely unmarked in the two American species, but heavily spotted with white in the Asian crested kingfisher and the African giant kingfisher. The underparts may be white or rufous, and all forms have a contrasting breast band except male ringed kingfisher. The underpart pattern is always different for the two sexes of each species.
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