Wildlife and bird watching in East Anglia
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A pair of cranes have nested at RSPB Lakenheath Fen, the first time for 400 years that cranes have nested in the Fens. Although a very small number have been nesting in the Norfolk Broads for a few years, they weren't expected to spread out from that location.
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Recent East Anglia news
- Budget-tightening threat to stone curlew’s resurgence
- Birds really do need some help in this weather
- Norfolk’s biodiversity hotspot revealed
- Found – The spider that was feared extinct in the UK
- High-tech bid to stop barn owl road carnage
- Great time to see starling 'swarms'
- Regional differences in UK butterfly count
- UK’s first breeding spoonbill colony for 300 years
- Leucistic Blue tit in Norfolk, UK.
- Britain’s bittern population is booming
- British kids clueless when it comes to nature – the shocking results of TV survey
- Harbour porpoise and Bottlenose dolphin most common sightings in UK Whale and Dolphin Watch
- Breeding bonanza among wading birds as conservation work pays off
- Unusual whale species recorded off the UK
- A great breeding season for UK’s avocets
More East Anglia news
- Ten year celebration: the farm giving hope for future of farming
- Marine conservation zone map needs your input
- Natural England withdraws funding from white-tailed eagle reintroduction project
- Orphaned Seals Saved By RSPCA Wildlife Centre
- Avocet, Temminck’s stint and whimbrel spotted at Tubney Fen
- Crane chicks hatch at Slimbridge in preparation for release in Somerset
- Sutton Fen restoration project complete
- New report reveals the ups and downs of Britain’s water birds
- Wildlife flourishing at Blakeney Point
- Swans shot dead in Norfolk
- Far Ings Visitor Centre reopens
- Sea eagles - Let's have them all over the country - Your vote.
- Are Sea eagles coming back to Suffolk? Vote on what you think should happen
- Loch of the Lowes most visited nature reserve – On Wildlife Extra
- Reintroducing rare or locally extinct animals back into England
Are Sea eagles coming back to Suffolk? Vote on what you think should happenIn any debate about conservation, it is always important to discount 10% of the arguments at either end of the range, as some people will support all conservation, no matter what the cost or practicalities, and others would complain about spending 5 Euros to save the last elephant. Somewhere in the middle is a rational debate and, usually, the right answer.
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White-tailed sea eagles to be released in Norfolk?The magnificent sea eagle could make a return along the Norfolk coast next summer if a proposed re-introduction scheme gets the go ahead.
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Corncrake found in Manchester car park. A corncrake found wandering around a restaurant car park in Manchester in September, has been given a safe haven at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve near Fakenham
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Butterflies prefer some counties more than others.A mixture of intensive farming practices, urban sprawl and lack of woodland management have led to a major decline in the UK butterfly population in the last 100 years, with 17 species having disappeared from our shores in that time, and most other species having suffered a huge decline in their range.
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Cranes breed in the Fens for the first time in 400 yearsMay 2007. Cranes have been found breeding in the Fens of East Anglia for the first time in 400 years.
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Bitterns breeding in the Fens for the first time for 70 yearsSeptember 2007. The recovery of the bittern, took a small step forward with news that, despite flood problems, male bitterns were recorded at more sites than any other year since 1990.
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Horsey Estate News
Latest News, January 2007
National Trust Warden Steve Prowse counted 13,500 pink-footed geese on a dawn count on 22 January, on this wonderful Trust grazing marsh site in the eastern Broads. There were also 400 white-fronted geese and eight Whooper swans.
Raptors
The winter count is now up to ten different species of raptor including red kite, rough-legged buzzard, hen harrier, marsh harrier.
Rare water beetle
Not of the same size, but of similar significance, was the discovery of the exceptionally rare water beetle (Agabus labiatus) in a newly cleared pond on the property last summer.
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Raptors
The winter count is now up to ten different species of raptor including red kite, rough-legged buzzard, hen harrier, marsh harrier.
Rare water beetle
Not of the same size, but of similar significance, was the discovery of the exceptionally rare water beetle (Agabus labiatus) in a newly cleared pond on the property last summer.
Click here to visit Horsey.
Top wildlife watching spots in East Anglia.
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Best activity book of the year
Summer is here, we have warm weather, and the beach is beckoning. A swim, build a couple of sandcastles, a bit of beach cricket, but what to do next?
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