23/06/2019
The RSPB
is assisting Norfolk Constabulary in an appeal for information into the theft
of seven clutches of Little
Tern eggs
from a colony near Winterton, Norfolk.
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Little Tern Recovery Project volunteers and staff work shifts to monitor the
terns throughout daylight hours, when the birds are most vulnerable to
disturbance. However, in the early hours of the morning of Thursday 20 June,
RSPB Little Tern wardens discovered that up to 20 eggs had been illegally
stolen from seven nests. Human footprints were identified leading up to each
nest.
Little
Tern is one of the UK's rarest breeding seabirds, having suffered serious
declines over the past 25 years. In the 1980s there were 2,500 breeding pairs
but this fell to fewer than 2,000 pairs in 2000, and it is now estimated that
there are currently a maximum of 1,500 pairs.
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