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By Hanna Claeson/April 22, 2021 4:01 pm EDT
Prince William is slowly starting to resume royal duties after the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip. Decked out in black, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the 282 (East Ham) Squadron, Air Training Corps on April 21, according to Hello!. William, per Tatler, is also expected to meet with his father, Prince Charles, and his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth in the coming weeks, to discuss the future of the British monarchy.
And if that seems like a heavy load to shoulder, it s one that William has literally been prepping for all of his life. UK media outlets, like My London, speculate that the Duke of Cambridge, who will ascend to the throne after his, father Charles, might be king by 2048. At that point, a 65-year-old Prince William would have spent the better half of his life thinking about becoming a monarch. And, accord
Feeding gulls creates more issues in the longrun.
- Credit: EDMUND FELLOWES
People in a seaside town are being reminded not to be gull-ible and feed the birds in a crackdown on the nuisance birds.
Dr Viola Ross-Smith with a gull chick.
- Credit: Dr Ross-Smith
Great Yarmouth Borough Council has long urged people not to feed the gulls deliberately, or by simply not putting leftover food in the bin.
But last summer s coronavirus lockdown took care of the problem on its own, with the town centre staying relatively gull-free.
Now the council is ramping up its campaign again as people return to outdoor life - and the gulls follow.
British Birds paper from December 2015 (
The Eurasian curlew the most pressing bird conservation priority in the UK?, Brown et al), and had been increasingly worried by Birdwatch Ireland press releases arriving on my desk at the BBC Natural History Unit. These horror stories screamed emergency the Emerald Isle was witnessing a 90% decline in numbers since the 1980s, and now Numenius arquata was red-listed in the UK. The beautiful curlew seemed to be edging closer to oblivion.
Action on curlew needed
I couldn’t understand what was happening and why there was no dramatic action to turn things around. I wanted to help but wasn’t sure what an individual could do, other than walk, talk and try to bring the issue to the fore. Never in a thousand years would I have believed that in March 2021 things would have moved on so much that the Curlew Recovery Partnership England mercifully shortened to CRP would be launched and the curlew recognised as a flagship species for the heal
Waterbirds that have historically migrated to the UK during winter have stopped doing so because of global warming, a new survey reveals.
Many species of duck and swan arrive on British shores as winter arrives because temperatures here are balmier than where they are coming from.
But with many northern regions, such as Scandinavia, getting warmer in autumn and winter than ever before in recorded history, many birds are choosing to stay put.
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The report revealed numbers of Scaup (pictured) - a type of diving duck - arriving on British shores have dropped by three-quarters since 1973