Would it oblige the water authority to avoid damage to the banks of watercourses where kingfishers are known to make their nests, and so on?
It is no use saying that the kingfisher is already protected in the comprehensive protection given under the £5 penalty.
Kingfishers cannot be permanently scared off, and it is impossible to protect fishponds against them by nets without quite disproportionate trouble and expense.
I think the kingfisher is the most beautiful bird we have.
The fish mysteriously disappeared, although no kingfishers were found there.
I give the kingfisher merely as a type; there are many other illustrations one could give.
I want to protect the kingfisher just as much as anyone—but to protect him up to a point.
It was during the time required to bring up a brood of kingfishers.
