Possible Clues:

• Colourful riverside bird
• Bird family has good tree in which female nests
• Royal couple eat perch caught by one of these, perhaps
• River bird
• Colourful river bird
• Halcyon coalition of state and church leaders
• Large-headed bird
• Man approaching shipping forecast area sees bird
• Bird in royal family goes after monk for small measure
• Bird takes gherkins, if desperate