Conservationists Celebrate Record-breaking Roseate Tern Population on Coquet Island
The Roseate Tern, the rarest breeding seabird in the UK, has reached a record-breaking population on Coquet Island. Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) are small, white-and-black birds that nest on three islands in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In the 1970s the population of Roseate Terns crashed to as low as 16 breeding […]