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The number of black-winged stilts to have fledged the UK in 2017 is more than the total in the last 30 years, experts say. The bird, common across southern Europe, is "extremely rare" in the UK ...

Mild weather is believed to have helped a family of black-winged stilt chicks hatch in Britain for the first time in 20 years, the RSPB said. 30 May 2008 • 11:14pm A pair of the birds ...

Environmentalists in Kanyakumari have spotted a group of ground nests of the black winged stilt. (photo: K. Antony Xavier) Kanyakumari district once had 4,500 tanks and now only 1500 and seeing ...

A nature reserve in Lincolnshire is celebrating the arrival of four black-winged stilt chicks - the first time the species has bred in the county. The pair at RSPB Frampton Marsh hatched all of ...

The black-winged stilt chicks came out of their eggs at RSPB Cliffe Pools, Hoo Peninsula on Friday (June 13). The last successful breeding attempt by the species was in Norfolk in 1987.

Black-winged stilt chicks have hatched at a reserve in Yorkshire in what is thought to be the most northerly breeding success for the rare bird. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust said a pair of black ...

Last weekend Is-Simar Nature Reserve welcomed its first ever Black-winged Stilt chicks. The first eggs from the nest of four started to hatch on Friday morning and by Sunday all four chicks had ...

Last weekend Is-Simar Nature Reserve welcomed its first ever Black-winged Stilt chicks. The first eggs from the nest of four started to hatch on Friday morning and by Sunday all four chicks had ...