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Fake birds used to boost seabird population (RSPB) (1 Viewer)

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Fake birds are being placed on newly created habitat to boost numbers of breeding little terns at Langstone Harbour.

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But surely all that does is attract extant birds that would otherwise have gone elsewhere? Unless you somehow know that you are abstracting the additional birds from vulnerable colonies being ravaged by rampant Hedgehogs, how does that help?

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