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
- British wildlife watching increasingly popular
- Wildlife news RSS feed now available.
- Police bungle leads to swan killing case being dropped
- ‘Wetland Vision’ sets scene for wetland creation and restoration across England.
- Corncrake reintroduction success
- Black-tailed Godwit & other wader chicks wiped out in Ouse Washes floods
- Black-tailed godwits hatch at WWT Welney
- Very Rare Crucifix ground beetle rediscovered at Wicken Fen
- Protests Over Wash Barrage Proposal.
- BBC Springwatch relocates to Pensthorpe Nature Reserve, North Norfolk
- Developer fined £3,500 for destroying bat roost
- £25m project ‘Butterfly World’ project launched to help reverse 76 percent decline in UK butterfly species
- New habitat being created for wigeon at WWT Welney
- 2 new wildlife reserves open in the Humber Estuary
- New UK moth record at Wicken Fen
More East Anglia news
- Vast new reserve to be created in Essex by flooding Wallasea island.
- Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point
- Scott and Shackleton Penquin Sketches Found in Cambridge
- Pensthorpe Barn Owl Box Success
- Pensthorpe Conservation Trust opens first conservation centre dedicated to species reintroduction
- New Minsmere heathland attracts rare Silver-studded blue butterfly
- Butterflies prefer some counties more than others.
- Minsmere moths and butterflies.
- Minsmere 60th anniversary
- RSPB Minsmere and Dingle Marshes damaged by surge tides
- Cranes breed in the Fens for the first time in 400 years
- Humber floods destroy Bearded tits and avocet nests.
- Dead whale spotted in the Humber
- RSPB disappointed by lack of prosecution over Sandringham hen harrier shootings
- Rare Exmoor ponies to have new heathland home in Suffolk
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.