This year marks the 90th anniversary for BTO’s longest running survey, which has been carried out annually since 1928, and represents, as far as anyone is aware, the longest running dataset for any breeding bird in the world. The Heronries Census started out as a one-off survey for British Birds magazine but from small acorns mighty oaks do grow and currently around two-thirds of the UK’s...

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