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Spending many hours on Chesil Beach watching over the little tern colony over the last two months, it was inevitable that at some point my jumbled mind would turn to the matter of how many pebbles form the 18 mile long shingle bank, and furthermore, how far would they reach if laid side by side in a...

Chesil Beach hosts the only breeding colony of the Little Tern in the south-west. This beautiful bird is indeed little - about half the size of a common tern - and considerably less common. They migrate to Britain annualy after wintering off the western coast of Africa. The last two years have seen the...