El Annie
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................Hundreds of birds will catch a horrific disease at a South Wales beauty spot this summer and staff there will be forced to put them down and then burn their bodies. Each year more than 8,000 seagulls use Flat Holm island, off Barry, to lay eggs and look after their chicks, but because they forage for food on Cardiff's tips many catch avian botulism, which paralyses them and condemns them to a lingering death. Staff on the 60-acre island, which opened for the tourist season yesterday and attracts 2,000 visitors each year, will put the paralysed birds and their chicks out of their misery by wringing their necks. They will then heap up the bodies and burn them to ensure that other gulls do not catch the disease by eating the dead birds.
More information - icWales
New home for bird of prey...................
Peregrine falcons are being encouraged to breed once again at a north Wales lake. A new nesting box for the birds of prey has been put in place on the stone dam at Lake Vyrnwy near Dinas Mawddwy. It has been installed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which runs a nature reserve around the lake. Peregrine falcons had been under threat since the 1960s from pesticides and persecution from landowners, but their numbers are starting to recover. The new home at Lake Vyrnwy replaces an older box on the dam, which had become rotten after nine years. During that time, three pairs of peregrines had nested in various parts of the reserve but the birds had not used the dilapidated box since 2000.
More information - BBC
From today's conserv@tion which you can find at - http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm
Annie
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More information - icWales
New home for bird of prey...................
Peregrine falcons are being encouraged to breed once again at a north Wales lake. A new nesting box for the birds of prey has been put in place on the stone dam at Lake Vyrnwy near Dinas Mawddwy. It has been installed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which runs a nature reserve around the lake. Peregrine falcons had been under threat since the 1960s from pesticides and persecution from landowners, but their numbers are starting to recover. The new home at Lake Vyrnwy replaces an older box on the dam, which had become rotten after nine years. During that time, three pairs of peregrines had nested in various parts of the reserve but the birds had not used the dilapidated box since 2000.
More information - BBC
From today's conserv@tion which you can find at - http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm
Annie
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