E is for Egret
Little egrets, a bright white, medium-sized bird of the heron family, only started breeding here in 1996, but since have expanded so rapidly their population growth is measured in the multiple hundreds of per cent.
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Little egrets, a bright white, medium-sized bird of the heron family, only started breeding here in 1996, but since have expanded so rapidly their population growth is measured in the multiple hundreds of per cent.
Their song is a fast-paced, attractive soft warble that livens up a late winter hedgerow.
Choughs are spectacular birds. British birdlife would be much the poorer without them.
In a way, its journey on British shores is of the most remarkable kind: from nothingness back to life, a conservation resurrection.