Halcyon is the poetic name for which bird?
Halcyon (genus) Halcyon (genus) Halcyon () is a genus of the tree kingfishers, near passerine birds in the subfamily Halcyoninae. The genus "Halcyon" was introduced by the English naturalist and artist William John Swainson in 1821. He named the type species as the woodland kingfisher ("Halcyon senegalensis"). "Halcyon" is a name for a bird in Greek legend generally associated with the kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the bird nested on the sea, which it calmed in order to lay its eggs on a floating nest. Two weeks of calm weather were therefore expected around the winter solstice. This myth leads
Prayer for the Halcyon Fear on CD and cassette, containing "Flowers Through the Air" and "Zippity-Do-Dah" as bonus material. Bob Bert provided liner notes which detailed the band's history. Prayer for the Halcyon Fear Prayer for the Halcyon Fear is the debut album of folk rock band Tiny Lights, released in 1985 through Uriel Music. Nitsuh Abebe of allmusic said the album has "the continual loose brilliance that's typically only found on debut records." He awarded "Prayer for the Halcyon Fear" four out of five stars, calling it the band's best effort to date. Critics of the "Trouser Press" called it "a delightful debut" that