OMG! Cath reminded me that we do have a book about birds in French that we bought in Hay-on-Wye (in all probability) and then surprised me even more by finding it on our bookshelf.
So I was wrong about roi pecheur. A kingfisher’s name is martin-pecheur d’europe. There are so many other names I need to learn. Tits are called mésange. A long-tailed tit? Un mésange a longue queue. Sittelle torchepot? A nuthatch. I knew learning French was going to be hard but learning French bird names looks like a whole new ball game.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 