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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Patrick Whittle and Allen G. Breed

Osprey came back from the brink once. Now chicks are dying in nests, and some blame overfishing

Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a circle of sticks and pine cones on the weathered, guano-spattered platform. It’s a failed osprey nest, taken over by diving terns.

“The birds never laid here this year,” said Watts, near the mouth of Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. “And that's a pattern we've been seeing these last couple of years.”

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