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Common tern feeding chick

Longer-billed, longer-legged and shorter tailed than the extremely similar Arctic tern. The bill is also black-tipped and the flight feathers lack the 'see through' quality of the Arctic tern.

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Latest news

Hope for UK’s threatened bumblebees as lost species given second chance

3 June 2013

An extinct British bumblebee species will get a boost today (Monday June 3) as a new generation of queens are released on the edge of Kent.

Conservation groups seek ministerial reassurance about bird of prey protection

31 May 2013

A coalition of wildlife and countryside organisations has written to the Environment Secretary for a reassurance that no licences will be issued for the removal or destruction of birds of prey or their nests for the protection of gamebirds