Posted by admin on January 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Conservationists are investigating what has caused the largest roost of corn buntings in living memory to settle in a farmer’s field in Bedfordshire.
The farm in the village of Stotfold in Bedfordshire currently has 700 corn buntings – thought to be around 4 per cent of the entire UK population – occupying one field.
RSPB experts are [...]
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Posted by admin on July 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
For the first time in more than 30 years, hundreds of threatened Sandwich terns have settled to nest at RSPB Minsmere nature reserve, on the Suffolk coast, joining record numbers of gulls to provide a spectacular sight and sound for visitors.
It is not known why the terns have suddenly returned to Minsmere, but as they [...]
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