There are just 100 breeding pairs of kingfishers in the Netherlands, as the short but very cold snap this winter reduced the remaining population by 75%, according to bird experts.

Kingfisher expert Jelle Harder told Radio 1 at the weekend there were 1,000 breeding pairs in the country just four years ago, but their number has now plummeted.
Nevertheless, the kingfisher is unlikely to disappear from Dutch rivers and lakes because of migration from eastern Europe, Harder said.
In Dutch kingfishers are called ijsvogels, or ice birds.