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Birds seen on seashores in the UK: Little Tern |
| BBC News - Vandals Wreck
Little Tern Colony http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2029292.stm Read disturbing article about louts who broke through an electric fence and wrecked a major little tern colony site in the UK. Read numbers involved and slow return. |
| David Bellamy Conservation
Awards - Little Terns Hit Big Screen
http://www.davidbellamyconservation.org.uk/News/6.asp Find out about brilliant concept to show live images of little tern colony on Welsh beach to the public. See colour photograph of solitary bird on sand. |
| Isle of Man Birding - Sterna
albifrons http://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/Little%20tern4.htm Gain an insight into the little tern in flight. See colour photograph taken by member of island bird club. |
| Joint Nature Conservation
Committee - Little Tern http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2897/ UK government advisor explains the scope of inquiry in the reducing numbers of the little tern including coverage and census methods. Also find wash drawing. |
| Joint Nature Conservation
Committee - Seabird 2000 http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-2897-theme=textonly/ Begin to understand the extent of the little tern’s contracting population in UK. Find maps and figures resulting from major survey. |
| Royal Society for Protection
of Birds - Little Tern http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/l/littletern/ Check out this extremely noisy little tern. Find out which areas of UK coast that they have adopted as breeding grounds, and view colour illustration of adult in summer plumage. |
| RSPB - Diagnosis of the
Population Decline of Little Terns http://www.rspb.org.uk/science/Ecology/2002/littleterndiagnosis.asp Royal Society for the Protection of Birds tells of serious decline in population of this small tern with white forehead. Read about threats and see graph 1969-2000. |
| Tiscali Reference - Little
Tern, Sterna albifrons http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/birds_little_tern.html Find condensed but informative entry that explains how to recognize a little tern. Read visual description and see colour image of bird in flight. |
| Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, The
- Slimbridge: Sightings Database
http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/slimbridge/Sighting.asp?SightingID=3148/ Major nature reserve on UK estuary releases number of little terns sighted. Catalogues number seen, location within the reserve, and Latin name. |
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Birds seen on seashores in the UK
