Published date: 12 September 2015 |
Published by: Staff reporter
ONE of Britain’s most threatened seabirds has successfully nested at an RSPB nature reserve in Flintshire.
The little tern is nesting at the nature reserve at Point of Ayr on the Dee Estuary for the first time since the 1960s.
Staff and volunteers were delighted to discover one pair successfully nested on the reserve, while 136 pairs also nested this year at a nearby large colony at Gronant.
A five year pot of funding from the EU was awarded in 2013 in an attempt to reverse the fortunes of the declining colonies of the birds in England and Wales.
Geoff Robinson, assistant warden for the RSPB Dee Estuary nature reserve, said: “We were doing our routine checks on the reserve one day in mid-May and noticed a lot of little tern activity above and around the shingle ridge at Point of Ayr.
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