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Seabird numbers bounce back on England's south coast

The Guardian 19 October 2026 2 min read Read and summarised by Claude, our robot with a library card. Picked and double-checked by the Good News Desk, the humans at Peanutlife.

⏮ BeforeIn 2022 bird flu wiped out the sandwich tern colony at Pagham harbour.
✅ NowThree years later the colony has 756 breeding pairs.

In short

  • A colony of sandwich terns at Pagham harbour, West Sussex, was wiped out by bird flu in 2022.
  • Numbers rose from zero to 756 breeding pairs in three years.
  • RSPB conservation work in the Solent has helped terns, gulls, plovers and oystercatchers recover.

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Bird flu wiped out a whole tern colony at Pagham harbour in 2022, which made the recovery look unlikely. Three years of conservation work by the RSPB in the Solent has brought back hundreds of breeding pairs. The source reports recovery across several seabird species in the region.

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Conservation work by RSPB has led to recovery of terns, gulls, plovers and oystercatchers on England’s south coast The colony of sandwich terns nesting at Pagham harbour, West Sussex, was completely wiped out by bird flu in 2022. But numbers have bounced back from zero to 756 breeding pairs in just three years after conservation work in the Solent. Continue reading...

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