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More than 750 are to be made available for people to put up in their gardens to help nature.

Seabirds evolved to spend their days soaring through ocean skies like fish evolved for swimming. But for thousands of UK seabirds, their lives are cut short in a desperate and doomed scramble to resurface for air, wings tangled in netting or beaks pierced by hooks.

Next weekend will see hundreds of thousands of people around the country taking an hour out to count the bird life in their garden, on their balconies or in the space outside their window.

Farmers, gamekeepers and land managers are being asked to sign up to the ninth annual Big Farmland Bird Count, which takes place from 4-20 February 2022.

With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens near Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the bittern, which was, until 2015, on the United Kingdom’s red list of most-threatened species.

Nature is reclaiming her territory at a quarry in the east of England that is being transformed into a vast reserve offering vital sanctuary to endangered birds. With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens outside Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for th...

Nature is reclaiming her territory at a quarry in the east of England that is being transformed into a vast reserve offering vital sanctuary to endangered birds.

Ouse Fen Nature Reserve, outside Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for endangered birds like the secretive bittern.

Nature is reclaiming her territory at a quarry in the east of England that is being transformed into a vast reserve offering vital sanctuary to endangered birds.

Nature is reclaiming her territory at a quarry in the east of England that is being transformed into a vast reserve offering vital sanctuary to endangered birds. With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens outside Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the secretive bittern, which was, until 2015, on the UK's red list of most-threatened species.