Colony of one of UK’s rarest seabirds enjoys its best breeding season for 25 years

Some good terns deserve each other: Colony of one of UK’s rarest seabirds enjoys its best breeding season for 25 years Nesting pairs of little terns fledged more than 200 chicks at Blakeney Point  The rare seabird has been in serious decline nationally since the 1980s  Rangers counted 154 pairs of little terns nesting over … Read more

Colony of one of UK’s rarest seabirds enjoys its best breeding season for 25 years

Some good terns deserve each other: Colony of one of UK’s rarest seabirds enjoys its best breeding season for 25 years Nesting pairs of little terns fledged more than 200 chicks at Blakeney Point  The rare seabird has been in serious decline nationally since the 1980s  Rangers counted 154 pairs of little terns nesting over … Read more

Plastic pollution eaten by seabirds releases ‘potentially harmful’ chemicals in their stomachs

Plastic pollution eaten by seabirds releases ‘potentially harmful’ chemicals in their stomachs Seabirds often confuse pieces of plastic waste with food and ingest them Experts from the Netherlands created a simulated bird stomach in their lab They used real plastic debris from beaches and stomach oil from real birds Analysis revealed that various chemical leach … Read more