As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Monday 20 May 2019

How bird once extinct in UK battling back in North East



Record numbers of avocet, the bird which is the emblem of the RSPB, have arrived at WWT Washington as it continues recent resurgence
05:00, 1 MAY 2019
It's a black and white success story – and it’s happening on the banks of the River Wear.
The avocet, a bird with distinctive black and white plumage, was once declared extinct in the UK.
The emblem of the RSPB, avocets returned to the RSPB’s Minsmere reserve in Suffolk in 1947, after an absence of more than 100 years, and have gradually advanced north.
The first pair of avocets to nest in the North East did so in 2006 at WWT Washington Wetland Centre on Wearside, raising one chick.
Between 2006 and 2015, avocets successfully raised a total of 54 chicks at WWT Washington.

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