CERILE (Ceryle). Kind of Birds belonging to the Alcedinid family. They feed; like the Fisherman's King or the Bird of the Sea; of fish catching their huge beak flying to the surface of rivers and ponds. Diffused in the Americas; Asia and Africa. Wilhelm Kuhnert illustrated color scheme from the work "Life of the Animals" by German biologist and naturalist Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884); Vol. 5 ?Birds; edition of 1893.