4th July 2017
Rare protected birds have hatched three chicks at a bird reserve near Leeds, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has confirmed.
The presence of breeding spoonbills at the RSPB's Fairburn Ings reserve in West Yorkshire had been kept secret.
Spoonbills have not nested regularly in the UK since the 1700s but are now returning.
There are about 20 birds wintering in the country and this is the first hatching in the north, the RSPB said.
There are fewer than five pairs of the tall, white, heron-like birds breeding annually in the UK, according to the charity.
The four adult birds at Fairburn Ings, near Castleford, have black legs and an enormous spoon-shaped bill used to sweep through the water from side to side when scouring for food.
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Rare protected birds have hatched three chicks at a bird reserve near Leeds, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has confirmed.
The presence of breeding spoonbills at the RSPB's Fairburn Ings reserve in West Yorkshire had been kept secret.
Spoonbills have not nested regularly in the UK since the 1700s but are now returning.
There are about 20 birds wintering in the country and this is the first hatching in the north, the RSPB said.
There are fewer than five pairs of the tall, white, heron-like birds breeding annually in the UK, according to the charity.
The four adult birds at Fairburn Ings, near Castleford, have black legs and an enormous spoon-shaped bill used to sweep through the water from side to side when scouring for food.
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