PUBLISHED: 15:16 21 May 2018
| UPDATED: 15:16 21 May 2018
Jointly funded by the British
Trust for Ornithology (BTO), RSPB and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee
(JNCC), in association with WWT, the latest WeBS report, Waterbirds in the UK
2016/17, released last week, reports on 110 waterbird populations and
underlines the importance of the UK for millions of migratory waterbirds which
spend the winter here or pass through on their way to their breeding grounds in
the north and east.
Beginning as the National
Wildfowl Counts in the winter of 1947/48, in response to apparent declines in
the numbers of ducks and geese, 70 years later the scheme has expanded to
include all wintering waterbirds, counted every month by 3,000 volunteers
around the UK.
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