Wading birds were once a common sight on the flooded meadows of Britain's countryside However, as the countryside has dried out, due to the long-term effects of land drainage, the populations have ...

“We’ve been overwhelmed by the support of BBS volunteers across the UK in 2001,” said Sarah Harris, BBS organiser at the British Trust ... levels of wading birds but uses data to predict ...

THIS second series completes Mr. Coward's work on British birds, already favourably noticed in the pages of NATURE. It treats of the numerous and varied forms of aquatic and wading birds ...

Four UK wading bird species saw numbers fall to ... snipe and curlew are all at their lowest numbers since the British Breeding Bird Survey of more than 100 bird species started in the early ...

Wading birds provide a real wildlife spectacle in ... Survey organiser Andy Wilson of the British Trust for Ornithology said, "Only 54% of Welsh sites which held breeding waders in 1982 still ...

Spoonbills, one of Europe's loveliest wading birds, have begun to breed ... The report, in the edition of the journal British Birds to be published this week, covers only 1998, but Dr Ogilvie ...

British wading birds such as Lapwing, Snipe and Curlew need wet grassland to live and breed, yet it is one of the fastest disappearing habitats in the UK. The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust has had ...

Wading birds are in decline and need wet areas with soft, muddy ground to feed over winter – but a national farming charity ...

The birds learn through mimicry so the park put the parrots with a large flock that doesn't know curse words. Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep. A British wildlife park has eight birds that have not ...

the appetite of the British public for natural histories of the avifauna of their own country seems insatiable. Apart from all this, the present work, of which the first volume was issued in 1897 ...

Wading birds were once a common sight on the flooded ... the populations have dwindled. The census by the British Trust for Ornithology looked at sites last surveyed in 1982, when there was ...