03 Jul Essex Wildlife Trust and RSPB advise the public to ‘Share our Shores’ with beach-nesting birds this summer
Not all birds nest in trees and hedges. Some, like the brightly-beaked oystercatcher, ringed plover and little tern, nest on beaches. Little terns are the UK's smallest tern and one of the rarest breeding seabirds. Migrating from West Africa to the Essex coastline to breed, this...