The impressive State of the UK’s Birds 2014 was published recently. The theme of this year’s annual report is migrant birds, a group showing some of the most dramatic population changes in the last few decades.
This includes species like cuckoo which breed in the UK but spend the winter in Africa, as well as the large numbers of waders and wildfowl that breed further north, but spend their winters on UK and Channel Island coasts and wetlands.
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