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
- 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
- Reedbeds in the UK – Scarce and endangered
- 13,400 species on RSPB reserves – Less than 3% are birds
- Suffolk coastal sites being assessed for possible release of white-tailed eagles
- Record year for Bitterns in UK
- Otters thriving in the UK - Now in every county
- Woodlark populations suppressed by high level ofpredation
- 1000 Sandwich terns settle at Minsmere
More East Anglia news
- RSPB launches summer garden wildlife survey – Not just birds
- Great Yarmouth little terns get beach patrol
- Wicken Fen complete natural history goes online
- Have you seen an alien species in Norfolk?
- Sutton Fen gets £50,000 improvement award
- Wigeon, teal, plover and lapwing move into new wetlands at Welney
- Stone curlew reaches conservation target ahead of schedule – but dangers signs are flickering
- UK waterbirds in decline – with 1-2 exceptions.
- Has anyone seen any Waxwings this winter?
- White-tailed sea eagles to be released in Norfolk?
- Corncrake found in Manchester car park
- Redstarts and Pied flycatchers invade Britain
- Britain’s biggest coastal wetland restoration – Wallasea Island
- Best year on record for waders at Broadland reserve
- Sea reclaims part of RSPB Titchwell Marsh
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.